BRASSHAT - A Biography of Field-Marshal Sir Henry Wilson 1864 - 1922

London: Secker and Warburg, 1961. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 362 pp. Burgundy boards lettered in silver on the spine; illustrated with black and white plates, drawings and maps. Wear on the corners of the dustjacket with a chip and a tear on the lower right of the front panel; a few nicks and short tears around the edges; price intact; no interior markings. The Chapters are: 1864 - 1900: The Protestant Child; Road to Mandalay; The Silver Spoon; Ungilded Staff; No Bigger Than a Man's Hand; Engines of War; The Steamroller; Colenso; The Upper Tugela; Spion Kop to Ladysmith. 1901 - 1914: The New Era; Army Reform and the Entente Cordiale; The Peacemongers; The Ladder; The Sage of Camberley; Agadir; Frocks and Brasshats; Europe at Sunset; The Ulster Crisis; The Curragh Incident. 1914 - 1922: Armageddon; The Lost Opportunity; Mons Le Cateau Guise; The Marne; Deadlock; The Road to Berlin; Loos Champagne; The Wheel; The Butcher's Bill; The Giant Killer; Twilight on the Neva; The Nivelle Offensive; Messines Third Ypres Passchendaele; The New Deal; The Summit; Peace Without Profit; and Appointment with Murder; followed by an index..