9780198203582 - Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson: A Political Soldier von Jeffery, Keith (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 325 pages. In Good plus condition with Very Good minus dust jacket. White spine with black text. Dust jacket has mild edge and shelf wear and sticker on rear cover. Textblock has marking and underlining in pencil on many pages. Shelved ND-E. 1377907. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Signed copy. THERE ARE NO TARIFFS OR CUSTOMS DUTIES ON BOOKS. 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 commissions 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.First edition hardcover in dust jacket. An very good clean copy, bright and fresh. Signed and inscribed on the title page by the author.xiv, 325 pages, including index. Size 24.1 x 16.2 x 2.5 cm. Please search for 'Henley Signed' to see more of our signed books.

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Zustand: New. Henry Wilson was the only British field marshal ever to die in action, killed on his own doorstep in 1922 by two IRA men. He was a maverick Irishman, at the centre of affairs during the First World War years and after, recording everything in his diary. This is the modern biography of this controversial and misunderstood figure. Num Pages: 344 pages, 4 maps, frontispiece, 8 pp halftone plates. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJ; BGH; HBJD1; HBWN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 682. . 2006. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.