Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson: A Political Soldier

ISBN-13: 9780198203582 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 344 str.

Keith Jeffery

Opis

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.

Recenzje

An admirable biography which does justice to its subject without glossing over his faults and limitations...impressive Brian Bond, TLS

O autorze

Keith Jeffery is Professor of British History at Queen's University, Belfast, having previously been Professor of Modern History at the University of Ulster. He has been Parnell Fellow in Irish Studies at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and a Visiting Scholar at the Australian National University and the Australian Defence Force Academy.