Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson An Irish Soldier
by Jeffery, KeithFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-05-04
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
Keith Jeffery is Professor of British History at Queen's University, Belfast.
Table of Contents
| Illustrations | p. xii |
| Maps | p. xiii |
| List of abbreviations | p. xiv |
| The Irish context | p. 1 |
| The making of a staff officer | p. 11 |
| South Africa | p. 26 |
| Work in the War Office | p. 42 |
| At the Staff College | p. 64 |
| Preparing for war | p. 85 |
| Politics, the Irish question, and war | p. 107 |
| With the BEF | p. 131 |
| IV Corps | p. 156 |
| Coalition warfare | p. 179 |
| Winning the war | p. 203 |
| Defending the empire | p. 229 |
| Losing Ireland and saving Ulster | p. 256 |
| Death and reputation | p. 281 |
| Bibliography | p. 299 |
| Index | p. 311 |
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