Victoria Schofield

Rosemary Victoria Schofield is a British author, biographer, and historian.^[1] Her most recent books are a memoir of her thirty year friendship with Benazir Bhutto,^[2][3] a two volume history of the Black Watch^[4][5] and a biography of Sir John Wheeler-Bennett.^[6] She also wrote the first full-length biography of Field Marshal Archibald Wavell^[7][8] and edited a memoir of his life and naval career by her late father Vice Admiral Brian Bethen Schofield).^[9] She regularly contributes to British national and specialist media.^[10]

Life and career

Victoria Schofield was educated at the Royal Naval School for Girls, and at Lady Margaret Hall (LMH) of Oxford University, 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.^[11] She was the visiting Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony's College, University of Oxford in 2004-2005.^[12]

Schofield is married to Stephen Willis and has three adult children.^[11]

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, 2021. ISBN 9780755607181.
• 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.
• With The Royal Navy in War and Peace: O'er the Dark Blue Sea (Editor). Yorkshire: Pen & Sword, 2018. ISBN 9781526736475
• The Fragrance of Tears: My Friendship with Benazir Bhutto. London: Apollo, 2020. ISBN 9781789544459.
• The Rescue Ships and the Convoys, Saving Lives during the Second World War. (Editor & Author) Yorkshire: Pen & Sword, 2024, ISBN 1036102661