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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 Wiarts early life, his wartime experiences and role as Churchills 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.
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The Life and Times of Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart
The Life and Times of Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart
Soldier and Diplomat
Alan Ogden
Contents
General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart did not keep a diary nor was he a prolific letter writer. So I am indebted to all those members of the Carton de Wiart family who went to great lengths to help me build this picture of the very private man who lay behind the celebrity image of Britains best-known soldier. His great-grandchildren: Anthony Loyd, Annabelle Walker, Jane Barkes; his step-grandchildren Harry and Rosie Sutherland; Jane Sutherland; Deidre Maxwell-Scott; Baron Jean Houtart and his daughter Patricia.
My particular thanks go to Michael Martin and the Trustees of the Gerry Holdsworth Trust who gave me a generous grant towards researching this extraordinary story.
A special thank you to Crispian Cuss, formerly 4/7 Royal Dragoon Guards, for his invaluable advise on matters regimental and to Graeme Green, the Regimental Secretary of 4/7 Dragoon Guards.
My thanks also go to Charles Richards, Robin and Tara Beiber, Kate Fleming, Lieutenant General Sir John Kiszely, Gabriella Bullock, Paddy MacGregor, Moritz Fried, Brigadier Alex Turner, General Sir Mark Carlton-Smith, Brian Beaumont-Nesbitt, Dr Steven Kippax, Dr Roderick Bailey, Sir Anthony Weldon Bt., Fr Nicholas of Our Lady of Lourdes & St Michael Uxbridge, Rachel Rawlings of the Oratory School, Rebecca Maciejewski of the Victoria Cross and George Cross Association; the Fleming family for their kind permission to quote Peter Fleming; and the Chairman of Whites Club for his kind permission to use the clubs portrait of Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart VC.
In Germany, my thanks to Hans von Bulow; Margherita Prinzessin zu Hohenlohe-Bartenstein; Graf Markus Fugger von Babenshausen; Stefan Birkle (Fugger-Babenhausen Archives); and Klaus Breyer at Landesarchiv Baden-Wrttemberg.
In Belarus, many thanks to Katya Makarevich, Dr Ihar Melnikau and Svetlana Verenich for their invaluable help in navigating me through the Pripet marshes and the history of Belarus.
As always, it was a privilege to work with the National Archives; Karen Robson and Mary Cockerill of the Mountbatten Archives (Southampton University); Katrina DeMuro of the Liddle Hart Centre for Military Archives; Antonia Love of Reading University Library; Andrew Mussell of the Grays Inn Archive; Fr Nicholas of the Westminster Cathedral Archive; Jerry Fielder and Julie Grahame of the Karsh Archives; Anna Stefaniki of the Jozef Pisudski Institute of Research London.
The team at Bloomsbury Emily Drewe and Abigail Lane has been hugely supportive throughout and their patience exemplary. Thank you.
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Rue Qasr-el Nil, Cairo |
Hastires pas Del, Belgium |
Officers of 4th Dragoon Guards in India 1902 |
Lieutenant Carton de Wiart, 4th Dragoon Guards |
De Wiart and Rikki at Hove c.1910 |
Troops approaching Shimber Beris |
De Wiart on leave with his daughters c.1916 |
De Wiart on leave with his daughters c.1916 |
Anita, Rikki and Ria 1920 |
Inter-Allied Mission 1919 |
De Wiart with Max-Mller c. 1923 |
Prince Karol Radziwi |
De Wiart at Prosty c. 1927 |
The house at Prosty |
The river at Prosty |
De Wiart with members of the Friends Ambulance Unit on their return from Norway 1940 |
Vincigliata, Fiesole, Italy |
SEXTANT Conference Cairo - Front row, from left: Chiang Kai-Shek, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Chiangs wife, Soong Mei Ling. Back row: Shang Chen, Liu Wei, Brehon Burke Somervell, Joseph Stilwell, Henry H. Arnold, Sir John Dill, Lord Mountbatten, and Carton de Wiart. |
The Generalissimo, Mountbatten, T.V. Soong, Lt General Browning and de Wiart |
Fishing with Joan on the River Lee |
Joan at Aghinagh House |
Maps
South Africa 1899 |
Somaliland 1914 |
The Western Front 191518 |
Poland 191921 |
Prostyn 192339 |
Poland 1939 |
Norway 1940 |
Italy 19413 |
Burma 19425 |
SEAC Boundaries 19435 |
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