In many ways, Arnold resembled an individual of the variety described by Max Hastings, the military historian. The “sort of people you need to win your wars are seldom if ever going to be the ones you would call normal human beings,” Hastings has said. Often they “possessed an uncongenial personality” and were “somewhat unhinged,” and not infrequently they “terrified” or at least aroused the “deepest suspicion by other soldiers around them.”
