Kitchener
Hero and Anti-Hero
Published on 24. February 2016
320 pages
978-0-85772-960-6 (ISBN)
Description
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916) is one of the most important figures in the history of the British Empire. Beginning as Royal Engineer in the 1870s he would end his career over forty years later as Secretary of State for War - the iconic figure of World War I recruitment posters. In between he became both the most famous British soldier in the world during the peak period of European imperialism, and a celebrated and sometimes controversial pro-consul and administrator. At his death in 1916 he had literally become the 'face' of the British war effort. This new biography offers a timely and modern evaluation of a still disputed and complex military man of empire.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
17 bw in 8pp plates
ISBN-13
978-0-85772-960-6 (9780857729606)
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C. Brad Faught is Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Tyndale University College in Toronto. A graduate of the Universities of Oxford and Toronto, he is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Senior Fellow of Massey College at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Into Africa: The Imperial Life of Margery Perham; The New A-Z of Empire (both published by I.B.Tauris); The Oxford Movement: A Thematic History of the Tractarians and Their Times and Gordon: Victorian Hero.
Content
Introduction
A Peripatetic Childhood
Learning to be a Soldier
To Palestine and the Near East
In the Land of the Pharaohs
The Deserts of Sudan
Sirdar of the Egyptian Army
Victory at Omdurman
At Fashoda with the French
From Khartoum to Cape Town
The South African War
To India
Egypt Again
Warlord
A Watery Grave and an Enduring Legend
A Peripatetic Childhood
Learning to be a Soldier
To Palestine and the Near East
In the Land of the Pharaohs
The Deserts of Sudan
Sirdar of the Egyptian Army
Victory at Omdurman
At Fashoda with the French
From Khartoum to Cape Town
The South African War
To India
Egypt Again
Warlord
A Watery Grave and an Enduring Legend
