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From Midshipman to Field Marshal, EPUB eBook

From Midshipman to Field Marshal EPUB

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The famous and classic autobiography of one of Britain's most famous soldiers, Field Marshal Sir Evelyn Wood VC.

Remarkably for the time, Wood began his career as a Midshipman in the Royal Navy, serving in the Naval Brigade in the Crimean War.

He was then commissioned into the Army and saw service in the Sudan War in 1884-85.

Wood documents fully both his short naval service and his distinguished military career.

This edition of the memoirs includes the two volumes in a single book.

Volume 1 covers Wood's family background and spans the period up to 1878.Volume 2 continues from 1878 and ends with his appointment, in 1903, as a Field Marshal.

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