Gordon F. Sander
He was slovenly, insubordinate, thin-skinned, self-possessed, and a sadist. He often took meetings in the nude. He munched on raw onions between meals and mused on such diverse subjects as yoga, the social beliefs of a hyena, and the behaviour of flies trapped under a tumbler.
He had a theory that men could store up energy like a camel and in between missions he would sleep for days or lie on the floor listening to symphonies on his dusty monograph, storing his ‘fat’, as he called it, for his next foray.
Guided by an inviolable belief in God and himself, in roughly that order, he led men into war in such far-flung places as Sudan, Palestine, Abyssinia and Burma, and left his mark on the peoples and military history of all those places, particularly Israel, where his name is still legend.
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