Ironside: The Authorised Biography of Field Marshal Lord IronsideThe 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 route to Dunkirk. Back in business as C-in-C Home Forces he was given his baton. Ironside surely had one of the most varied and long military careers of any military leader in the 20th century. |
Contents
Introduction | |
Early Days | |
Undercover Subaltern | |
The Making of a Staff Officer | |
Apprenticeship to Command | |
Holding the Line | |
Command at Home | |
The Raj that | |
Eastern Command | |
In Sight of the War Office | |
On Call at the Rock | |
Waiting in the Wings | |
CIGS | |
Scandinavian Sideshow | |
Polar Mission | |
Spring Relief Autumn Homecoming | |
Temporary Commands | |
Persia on the Carpet | |
From Cairo to Camberley | |
Modernising Commandant | |
Desperate Days | |
Epilogue | |
Notes | |
Select Bibliography | |
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Ironside: The Authorised Biography of Field Marshal Lord Ironside Lord Edmund Ironside,General Lord Richards No preview available - 2018 |
Ironside: The Authorised Biography of Field Marshal Lord Ironside Edmund Ironside No preview available - 2018 |