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PARLIAMENTARIAN, womaniser, patriot, animal-lover, diarist, entertainer, litigant, historian and charmer. In death, as in life, the adjectives flow thick and fast to describe

Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark.

But for all the public controversy and bluster, he wanted increasingly in later years to be taken seriously as a historian and scholar.

Although it is for his famous Diaries that he will be best remembered, Clark was also the author of several well-received books on military history.

He was 33 when he wrote The Donkeys, a study of the incompetence of Britain's First World War generals.

He ...

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