Rosemary Victoria Schofield is a British author, biographer, and historian. Her most recent books are a memoir of her thirty year friendship with Benazir Bhutto, a two volume history of the

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and a biography of Sir

John Wheeler-Bennett Sir John Wheeler Wheeler-Bennett (13 October 1902 – 9 December 1975) was a conservative English historian of German and diplomatic history, and the official biographer of King George VI. He was well known in his lifetime, and his inter ...

. She also wrote the first full-length biography of Field Marshal Archibald Wavell and edited a memoir of his life and naval career by her late father Vice Admiral B. B. Schofield. She regularly contributes to British national and specialist media.

Life and career

Victoria Schofield was educated at the Royal Naval School for Girls, and at Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) of

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, from which she holds 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.Personal information
Official website. Retrieved 23 March 2016. She was the visiting Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony's College, University of Oxford in 2004-2005.The Alistair Horne Fellowship (with list of past Fellows)
St Antony's College, Oxford. Retrieved 10 November 2012. Schofield is married to Stephen Willis and has three adult children.

Published works

*''Bhutto: Trial and Execution.'' London: Cassell, 1979. . *''The United Nations: People, Politics, and Power.'' Hove: Wayland, 1979. . *''Every Rock, Every Hill: The Plain Tale of the North-West Frontier and Afghanistan.'' London: Pimlico, 1984, 1987. . *''Kashmir in the Crossfire.'' London, Tauris, 1996. . *(ed.) ''Old Roads, New Highways: Fifty Years of Pakistan''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. . *''The House That Fell Down: A Diary of a Domestic Disaster.'' London: John Murray, 2001. . *''Wavell: Soldier and Statesman.'' London: John Murray, 2006. . *''Afghan Frontier: Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia / At the Crossroads of Conflict.'' London: Tauris Parke, 2003, 2010. . *''Kashmir in Conflict: India, Pakistan, and the Unending War.'' London: Tauris, 2000, 2003, 2010. . *''Witness to History: The Life of John Wheeler-Bennett.'' New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. . *''The Highland Furies: The Black Watch 1739-1899''. London: Quercus, 2012. . *''The Black Watch: Fighting in the Front Line, 1899-2006''. London: Head of Zeus, 2017. . *''With The Royal Navy in War and Peace: O'Er the Dark Blue Sea'' (Editor). London: Pen & Sword, 2018. *''The Fragrance of Tears: My Friendship with Benazir Bhutto''. London: Apollo, 2020. .

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* . {{DEFAULTSORT:Schofield, Victoria Living people Alumni of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford British biographers British military historians British writers Writers about the Kashmir conflict Presidents of the Oxford Union Year of birth missing (living people)