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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The Lost Dictator begins and ends with the assassination off London’s Eaton Square on the very step of his fashionable home of Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson. It was a murder which rocked Britain and was headline news all over the world yet few events of so sensational a character vanished so quickly and completely from public memory. Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson himself has similarly been consigned to an oblivion that would have astonished his contemporaries and himself. He gets barely a passing mention in most history books. Yet his tempestuous dominating figure stormed through a crisis-ridden generation and loomed large in the military and political affairs of the first twenty years of this century. All but idolised by his friends execrated by his enemies and he had more than an ordinary man’s share of both-he was always a power to be reckoned with. Bernard Ash in this new and penetrating reassessment of Wilson maintains that but for his assassination he could have loomed larger still. In an age when Europe was turning to dictatorship. (SP)