Edmund Ironside

Ironside

The Authorised Biography of Field Marshal Lord Ironside

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The Field Marshal was a born commander and, besides being a gifted linguist, was mobilised as a Subaltern for the Boer War to act as a secret agent and to streamline the peace process. With an appetite for battle, in WW1 he became the Allied C-in-C of the Expeditionary Force in North Russia and, being ranked as a knighted Major General at the age of 39, he then modernised the Staff training to deal with armoured and aerial warfare. His Generalship was tested out in the Raj and, in 1939, on the day war was declared, the British Army leadership as CIGS was placed in his hands, so that he was able to defend Calais and free-up the BEF escape ro… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-7509-8740-0
EAN: 9780750987400
Produktnummer: 25506339
Verlag: The History Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Seitenangabe: 416 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 14'444 KB

Über den Autor

LORD EDMUND IRONSIDE served in the Royal Navy and went on to a varied career with, amongst others, Marconi and Rolls-Royce. He was Honorary Secretary of the all-party Defence Study Group and Vice-president of the Institute of Patentees and Inventors. He is the author of High Road to Command.