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Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson - A Political Soldier (Hardcover)
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Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson - A Political Soldier (Hardcover)
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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.
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