The Life and Times of Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart

Soldier and Diplomat

Alan Ogden (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-23312-6 (ISBN)

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In this ground-breaking new book, Alan Ogden brings to life Lt Gen sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, soldier, statesman and an often-overlooked figure in British Military and Diplomatic History. Framed through the life of Carton de Wiart this book also offers an exploration of important topics and developments in the first half of the 20th-century, including the Boer War, World War I, World War II and Anglo-Sino relations.

This biography ranges from de Wiart’s early life, his wartime experiences and role as Churchill’s personal representative to Chiang Kai-shek. Ogden draws from an extensive array of primary sources including previously unseen private family papers to examine, in exquisite detail, the life and times of a man who experienced the horrors of war to rise up the ranks and become a personal representative of Winston Churchill and then Clement Attlee.

This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as scholars studying British Military and Diplomatic history in the first half of the twentieth century.

Alan Ogden is currently the archivist of the Grenadier Guards and a lecturer for Martin Randall Travel. His work has focused on the S.O.E in Burma and has been received to critical acclaim.

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Maps

Introduction

Part I Early life 1880–1913

1 Who was Adrian Carton de Wiart?
2 Peacetime soldiering and marriage
3 A-hunting we will go

Part II Somaliland 1914

4 To war with the Mad Mullah

Part III The First World War 1915–18

5 In Flanders fields
6 A lucky and not so lucky brigadier

Part IV Poland 1919–23

7 A tall order: The Polish brief
8 A finger on the Polish pulse
9 Game, set and match to Pilsudski

Part V Polesie 1923–39

10 The missing years: Self-exile to the Pripet marshes

Part VI Poland 1939

11 Prelude to the Second World War: Blitzkreig in Poland

Part VII Norway 1940

12 A gallant fiasco

Part VIII Italy 1941–3

13 A reluctant guest of Mussolini

Part IX China 1943–6

14 A dragon’s pool and a tiger’s den: The China brief
15 1944: The year of the monkey
16 Special operations and ‘secret society men’
17 The Generalissimo wins the war but loses the peace

Part X Retirement

18 A contented old age

Notes
Bibliography and Other Sources
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.11.2021
Zusatzinfo	20 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	671 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-23312-9 / 1350233129
ISBN-13	978-1-350-23312-6 / 9781350233126
Zustand	Neuware