European University Institute Library

The life and times of Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, soldier and diplomat, Alan Ogden

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The life and times of Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart

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Alan Ogden

Bloomsbury eBooks.

soldier and diplomat

"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"--, Provided by publisher

Early life 1880-1913 -- A child of the Belle Epoque goes to war -- Peacetime soldiering and marriage -- A-hunting we will go -- Somaliland 1914 -- To war with the Mad Mullah -- The First World War 1915-18 -- In Flanders fields -- A lucky and not so lucky Brigadier -- Poland 1919-23 -- A tall order : the Polish brief -- A finger on the Polish pulse -- Game, set and match to Piłsudski -- Polesie 1923-39 -- The missing years : self-exile to the Pripet marshes -- Poland 1939 -- Prelude to World War : blitzkrieg in Poland -- Norway 1940 -- A shocking story of ineptitude -- Italy 1941-43 -- A reluctant guest of Mussolini -- China 1943-46 -- A dragon's pool and a tiger's den : The China brief -- 1944 : The Year of the Monkey -- Special Operations and 'Secret Society men' -- The Generalissimo wins the war but loses the peace -- Retirement 1947-1963 -- A contented old age