| Auchinleck was treated badly by Churchill considering his military achievements (see C. Barnett 'The Desert Generals). However, there were allegedly dark corners of his personal life, an aspect completely overlooked in Phillip Warner's biography of the Auk. This was supposedly the root of some officers' (e.g. Montgomery's) dislike of him. I won't go into detail here but see 'Empire and Sexuality' by Ronald Hyam.
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