The Life and Times of Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart : Soldier and Diplomat (Hardcover)

List of illustrations Acknowledgements Maps 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 Notes Bibliography and Other Sources Index