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Hubert Foster
b. 1855
Remembered mainly as a soldier and military thinker rather than a literary figure, this late-Victorian officer also left behind a substantial work on how armies are organized for war. His life linked Britain, the United States, and Australia through service, diplomacy, and military reform.
1 Audiobook
Organization: How Armies are Formed for War
by Hubert Foster
About the author
Born in Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, on October 4, 1855, Hubert John Foster was educated at Harrow and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He built a distinguished career in the Royal Engineers, later serving as a military attaché in Washington and eventually becoming a senior figure in Australia's military establishment.
Foster is best known publicly as an army officer, but he also appears in library and book records as the author of Organization: How Armies Are Formed for War. That makes him an unusual presence in an audiobook or books catalog: not a novelist, but a professional soldier whose writing grew out of practical experience and close study of military organization.
He spent his later years in Australia and served as Chief of the Australian General Staff from 1916 to 1917. Foster died in 1919, leaving a reputation for discipline, intelligence, and service across several parts of the English-speaking world.