The Life and Times of Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart

Alan Ogden is currently the archivist of the Grenadier Guards and a lecturer for Martin Randall Travel. His work has focused on the S.O.E in Burma and has been received to critical acclaim.

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Acknowledgements
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Introduction

Part I Early life 1880–1913

1 Who was Adrian Carton de Wiart?
2 Peacetime soldiering and marriage
3 A-hunting we will go

Part II Somaliland 1914

4 To war with the Mad Mullah

Part III The First World War 1915–18

5 In Flanders fields
6 A lucky and not so lucky brigadier

Part IV Poland 1919–23

7 A tall order: The Polish brief
8 A finger on the Polish pulse
9 Game, set and match to Pilsudski

Part V Polesie 1923–39

10 The missing years: Self-exile to the Pripet marshes

Part VI Poland 1939

11 Prelude to the Second World War: Blitzkreig in Poland

Part VII Norway 1940

12 A gallant fiasco

Part VIII Italy 1941–3

13 A reluctant guest of Mussolini

Part IX China 1943–6

14 A dragon’s pool and a tiger’s den: The China brief
15 1944: The year of the monkey
16 Special operations and ‘secret society men’
17 The Generalissimo wins the war but loses the peace

Part X Retirement

18 A contented old age

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