Soldier, Poet, Rebel: The Extraordinary Life of Charles Hudson VC - Couverture rigide

Hudson, Miles

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ISBN 10 : 0750944366 ISBN 13 : 9780750944366

Editeur : The History Press Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

Charles Hudson VC was one of the twentieth century's outstanding fighting soldiers. His military career through two world wars and in Russia in 1919 earned him a host of medals. He was also a man of deep feeling, an accomplished poet and, in many ways, a rebel. In this compelling biography, the author skilfully interweaves his own narrative insight with his father's wartime journals and other unpublished material. The narrative includes detailed personal descriptions of the Battle of the Somme and other actions. It recounts the authoress Vera Brittain's bitter reaction to the death of her brother Edward when under Hudson's command in Italy in 1918 and tells how Hudson, out of compassion for her feelings, did not reveal the truth until he met her in 1934.

It tells of the extraordinary affair in the summer of 1940, when the Secretary of State for War, Anthony Eden, asked a meeting of senior army commanders in the then beleaguered Britain whether, in the event of a successful German invasion, their soldiers would agree to be evacuated to Canada or whether they would insist on going home to support their families.

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À propos de l?auteur

Miles Hudson served in the British Army before joining the Conservative Research Department where he became head of their Overseas Affairs Department. Hudson was Sir Alec Douglas Home's Political Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1970-74. He is the author of Triumph or Tragedy: Rhodesia to Zimbabwe (Hamish Hamilton, 1981), co-author with Sir John Stanier of War and the Media (Sutton, 1997), and Assassination (Sutton, 2000). He now farms in Hampshire.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The History Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0750944366
• ISBN 13: 9780750944366
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
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