Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson: A Political Soldier by Keith Jeffery

Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson: A Political Soldier

Keith Jeffery

325 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

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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 Wa...

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