TY - BOOK AU - RICHARDS David TI - Taking command: the autobiography SN - 9781472220844 (hbk.) : PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - Headline Publishing KW - GREAT BRITAIN KW - HISTORY, MILITARY KW - 21ST CENTURY KW - 20TH CENTURY KW - GENERALS KW - GREAT BRITAIN KW - BIOGRAPHY KW - RICHARDS, DAVID (DAVID JULIAN) KW - 1952- N1 - Includes index N2 - General Sir David Richards is one of the best known British generals of modern times. In 2013 he retired after over forty years of service in the British Army and a career that had seen him rise from junior officer with 20 Commando to Chief of the Defence Staff, the professional head of the British Armed Forces ER -