02864nam 2200613 a 450 991082503730332120230829001252.01-280-75753-10-19-151330-X1-4294-2126-6(CKB)1000000000398965(EBL)422624(OCoLC)252634485(SSID)ssj0000154512(PQKBManifestationID)11179392(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000154512(PQKBWorkID)10418209(PQKB)10321814(MiAaPQ)EBC422624(Au-PeEL)EBL422624(CaPaEBR)ebr10177934(CaONFJC)MIL75753(MiAaPQ)EBC7035584(Au-PeEL)EBL7035584(EXLCZ)99100000000039896520050922d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrField Marshal Sir Henry Wilson[electronic resource] a political soldier /Keith JefferyOxford, England ;New York Oxford University Press20061 online resource (340 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-820358-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-310) and index.Contents; 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; IndexHenry 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. - ;Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, an Irishman who in June 1922 was assassinated on his doorstep in London by Irish republicans, was one of the moWorld War, 1914-1918Great BritainBiographyMarshalsGreat BritainBiographyGreat BritainHistory, Military20th centuryWorld War, 1914-1918Marshals355.0092BJeffery Keith1131368MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825037303321Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson3998214UNINA