In 2011 the National Army Museum conducted a poll to decide who merited the title of 'Britain's Greatest General'. In the end two men shared the honour. One, predictably, was the Duke of Wellington. The other was Bill Slim. Had he been alive, Slim would have been surprised, for he was the most modest of men - a rare quality among generals. Of all the plaudits heaped on him during his life, the one he valued most was the epithet by which he was affectionately...

Henry Wilson served as a senior military planner before and during the First World War. This biography offers a reassessment of his life, placing him firmly in the context of his times & revealing the many complexities of a controversially 'political' soldier.