Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson
A Political Soldier
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A termék adatai:
- Kiadó OUP Oxford
- Megjelenés dátuma 2008. január 24.
- ISBN 9780199239672
- Kötéstípus Puhakötés
- Terjedelem352 oldal
- Méret 234x156x21 mm
- Súly 618 g
- Nyelv angol
- Illusztrációk 4 maps, frontispiece, 8pp plates 0
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Rövid leírás:
Henry Wilson was at the centre of affairs during the First World War and after, recording everything in his wildly indiscreet diary. Using a range of official and private sources, this is the first modern biography of this controversial and misunderstood figure.
TöbbHosszú leírás:
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 most controversial British soldiers of the modern age. Before 1914 he did much to secure the Anglo-French alliance and was responsible for the planning which saw the British Expeditionary Force successfully despatched to France after the outbreak of war with Germany. A passionate Irish unionist, he gained a reputation as an intensely 'political' soldier, especially during the 'Curragh crisis' of 1914 when some officers resigned their commisssions rather than coerce Ulster unionists into a Home Rule Ireland. During the war he played a major role in Anglo-French liaison, and ended up as Chief of the Imperial General Staff, professional head of the army, a post he held until February 1922.
After Wilson retired from the army, he became an MP and was chief security adviser to the new Northern Ireland government. As such, he became a target for nationalist Irish militants, being identified with the security policies of the Belfast regime, though wrongly with Protestant sectarian attacks on Catholics. He is remembered today in unionist Northern Ireland as a kind of founding martyr for the state.
Wilson's reputation was ruined in 1927 with the publication of an official biography, which quoted extensively and injudiciously from his entertaining, indiscreet, and wildly opinionated diaries, giving the impression that he was some sort of Machiavellian monster. In this first modern biography, using a wide variety of official and private sources for the first time, Keith Jeffery reassesses Wilson's life and career and places him clearly in his social, national, and political context.
a scrupulous, well-documented, and often witty contribution to imperial and military history. It is a tribute to thsi long-awaited, many-faceted, yet succinct biography that one is left craving for more.
Tartalomjegyzék:
The Irish Context
The Making of a Staff Officer
South Africa
Work in the War Office
The Staff College
Preparing for War
Politics, the Irish Question, and War
With the BEF
IV Corps
Coalition Warfare
Winning the War
Defending the Empire
Losing Ireland and Saving Ulster
Death and Reputation
Bibliography
Index
