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- ISBN
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- Publication Year
- 2020
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Wilson's War : Sir Henry Wilson's Influence on British Military Policy in the Great War and Its Aftermath
- Item Length
- 9.8in
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- Helion & Company, The Limited
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History, Political Science
- Topic
- Public Policy / Military Policy, Military / World War I, Military
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- 6.8in
- Number of Pages
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Today, just as he was a century ago, Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson is an archetypal 'love him or hate him' character. An agile mind, a sharp, witty and sometimes wicked tongue, and the author of diaries full of the kind of coruscating remarks that a modern tabloid newspaper editor only dreams of. Wilson enjoyed hobnobbing with politicians as much as with his fellow soldiers, often to the chagrin of both 'frocks' and 'brasshats'. The former, so the accepted narrative goes, found him pliable, na ve and ready to do their bidding. The latter, we are told, found him untrustworthy, mendacious and shallow. Yet in his lifetime Henry Wilson's many genuine admirers included leading figures in both the political and military establishments.Unlike many of his peers, Wilson was unable to present evidence in his own defence in the Battle of the Memoirs which followed the Great War. Soon after his death at the hands of Irish republican assassins his reputation was ruined by the publication of a biography based on his outspoken diaries. Wilson's enemies had their suspicions confirmed, his friends too often found themselves criticised in his late-night scribblings.More recent scholarship has examined Wilson's interventions in the cause of Irish Unionism and revealed a 'political soldier' willing and able to fight for this in the corridors of power. This study concentrates instead on Wilson's impact on the development and execution of British military policy during the Great War. Wilson's contribution to the British Army's preparations for war is familiar to military historians, his role in shaping policy in the final 18 months of the conflict deserve greater attention.In 1917 Wilson disagreed with the costly attritional strategy of both Sir Douglas Haig, the commander of the British forces in France, and Sir William Robertson, the government's principle military adviser at the War Office. It was a scepticism shared by British Prime Minister David Lloyd George who found Wilson's views refreshingly different. As a result, Wilson effectively put paid to a new British offensive in early 1918 and was instrumental in setting up the Supreme War Council, designed to better co-ordinate Allied military strategy. He then dominated the work of this body, setting its strategic priorities and putting in place structures which eased the adoption of unity of command on the Western Front.As this study shows, Wilson was neither the dupe of politicians, nor the hapless hand-maiden to greater military minds than his. Instead, his diplomatic skills helped preserve the brittle Anglo-French alliance, both in the early stages of the war and towards its end. His period as Chief of the Imperial General Staff from February 1918 saw him successfully walk the tightrope between politicians and military leaders and maintain fragile civil-military relations. In the aftermath of the conflict, Wilson helped shape Britain's imperial future, for better and for worse.
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Publisher
Helion & Company, The Limited
ISBN-10
1912866277
ISBN-13
9781912866274
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Wilson's War : Sir Henry Wilson's Influence on British Military Policy in the Great War and Its Aftermath
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Public Policy / Military Policy, Military / World War I, Military
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.8in
Item Width
6.8in
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ua647
Copyright Date
2019
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
355.0092
Series
Wolverhampton Military Studies
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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