Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson: a political soldier
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1. Verfasser: Jeffery, Keith (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford, England Oxford University Press 2006
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-310) and index
Illustrations; Maps; List of abbreviations; 1. The Irish context; 2. The making of a staff officer; 3. South Africa; 4. Work in the War Office; 5. At the Staff College; 6. Preparing for war; 7. Politics, the Irish question, and war; 8. With the BEF; 9. IV Corps; 10. Coalition warfare; 11. Winning the war; 12. Defending the empire; 13. Losing Ireland and saving Ulster; 14. Death and reputation; Bibliography; Index
Henry Wilson was the only British field marshal ever to die in action, killed on his own doorstep in 1922 by two IRA men (one of whom had a wooden leg). Wilson was a flamboyant, maverick Irishman, at the centre of affairs during the First World War years and after, recording everything in his wildly indiscreet diary. Using a wide range of official and private sources, this is the first modern biography of this controversial and misunderstood figure
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ISBN:019151330X
1429421266
9780191513305
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