Victoria Schofield
Rosemary Victoria Schofield is a British author, biographer, and military historian. Her most recent books are The Highland Furies: The Black Watch 1739-1899, and Witness to History: The Life of John Wheeler-Bennett. She also authored the first full-length biography of Field Marshal Archibald Wavell. An authority on the Afghanistan/Pakistan/Kashmir region, she regularly contributes to British national and specialist media.
Victoria Schofield was educated at the Royal Naval School for Girls, and at Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, from which she holds an M.A. degree in Modern History.
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 Unfinished 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.