On 22 June 1922, after unveiling a war memorial at Liverpool Street station, the former commander of Britainâ€s First World War army was shot dead on the doorstep of his Belgravia home. Drawing on newly declassified documents, this history examines Wilsonâ€s Ulster background and politics, the motives of his Republican assassins, and how his death unleashed the murderous civil war between supporters and opponents of the Irish Free State.
