Plumer of Messines is the memoir of Field Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer, written by his Chief of Staff, General Sir Charles Harington, and originally published in 1935; in the English text Harington draws on his own wartime experience to portray Plumer’s character, leadership and military career, with particular attention to his command of the British Second Army on the Western Front in the First World War and especially the planning and conduct of the Battle of Messines in June 1917, an operation marked by its meticulous preparation and the massive simultaneous detonation of underground mines that helped secure a strategically important victory, and the book also touches on other aspects of Plumer’s service, situating him within the broader context of the war and its aftermath.