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Victoria Schofield


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Kashmir in the crossfire, Afghan frontier, Wavell: Soldier & Statesman, The Highland Furies: Th, Kashmir in Conflict: India - Pak

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Rosemary Victoria Schofield is a British author, biographer, and military historian. Her most recent books are a two volume history of the Black Watch and a biography of John Wheeler-Bennett. She also authored the first full-length biography of Field Marshal Archibald Wavell. She regularly contributes to British national and specialist media.

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Victoria Schofield was educated at the Royal Naval School for Girls, and at Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) of Oxford University, from which she holds an M.A. degree in Modern History. At LMH she was a close friend of Benazir Bhutto, whom she succeeded as President of the Oxford Union Society. She was the visiting Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony's College, University of Oxford in 2004-2005.

Schofield is married to Stephen Willis and has three adult children.

Published works

  • Bhutto: Trial and Execution. London: Cassell, 1979. ISBN 9780304305391.
  • The United Nations: People, Politics, and Power. Hove: Wayland, 1979. ISBN 9780853406563.
  • Every Rock, Every Hill: The Plain Tale of the North-West Frontier and Afghanistan. London: Pimlico, 1984, 1987. ISBN 978-0712616256.
  • Kashmir in the Crossfire. London, Tauris, 1996. ISBN 9781860640360.
  • (ed.) Old Roads, New Highways: Fifty Years of Pakistan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 9780195778458.
  • The House That Fell Down: A Diary of a Domestic Disaster. London: John Murray, 2001. ISBN 9780719563294.
  • Wavell: Soldier and Statesman. London: John Murray, 2006. ISBN 9780719563201.
  • Afghan Frontier: Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia / At the Crossroads of Conflict. London: Tauris Parke, 2003, 2010. ISBN 9781417556922.
  • Kashmir in Conflict: India, Pakistan, and the Unending War. London: Tauris, 2000, 2003, 2010. ISBN 9781860645457.
  • Witness to History: The Life of John Wheeler-Bennett. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. ISBN 9780300179019.
  • The Highland Furies: The Black Watch 1739-1899. London: Quercus, 2012. ISBN 9781849165501.
  • The Black Watch: Fighting in the Front Line, 1899-2006. London: Head of Zeus, 2017. ISBN 9781784979973.

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