IF THE MURDER OF MPS ISN’T, Jo Cox-style, simply straightforwardly wrong, then this is the book for you. If histories replete with Peaky Blinders plot details aren’t your thing, then it is not. Great Hatred, an account of the murder of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP, winning wartime head of the Great War army and sometime confidant of Lloyd George, sits in curious succession to unfailingly-poor-to-markedly-bad accounts of the life and death of a man who became the youngest field marshal since Wellington. This, by some distance, is the worst of them. And their number includes The Lost Dictator, a deranged effort to claim we lost our very own Führer when Wilson was shot on the steps of his Belgravia home.
It is not possible for me to get over how bad this book is, but Ronan McGreevy — an journalist and author
