Table of Contents

1: The Irish Context
2: The Making of a Staff Officer
3: South Africa
4: Work in the War Office
5: The Staff College
6: Preparing for War
7: Politics, the Irish Question, and War
8: With the BEF
9: IV Corps
10: Coalition Warfare
11: Winning the War
12: Defending the Empire
13: Losing Ireland and Saving Ulster
14: Death and Reputation
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Keith Jeffery is Professor of British History at Queen's University, Belfast, having previously been Professor of Modern History at the University of Ulster. He has been Parnell Fellow in Irish Studies at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and a Visiting Scholar at the Australian National University and the Australian Defence Force Academy.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition 'An admirable biography which does justice to its subject without glossing over his faults and limitations...impressive'
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Brian Bond, TLS
`'Erudite, carefully researched and considered biography'
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Maurice Hayes, Irish Independent