A.P. Wavell's two-volume biography of Allenby recounts the study of a remarkable and innovative soldier. Commencing with Allenby's formative years in the South African campaigns alongside such contemporaries as Haig, Smith-Dorrien, Plumer, Rawlinson and Gough, Wavell moves on in Allenby: A Study in Greatness to analyze his subject's role as a Commander of the Third Army in France, where he became known as the last Cavalry General. Allenby, however, was always prepared to accommodate new ideas and it was partly this adaptability which led to his transfer to the Egyptian command in 1971. It was in this theatre of operations that he planned and saw through his brilliant campaigns in Palestine and Syria upon which his fame as a soldier rests.