Kitchener - C. Brad Faught

Kitchener

Hero and Anti-Hero

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
320 Seiten
2016
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78453-350-2 (ISBN)
62,35 inkl. MwSt
Revisionist new biography of Earl Kitchener, pivotal figure in World War I and British Empire history
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.

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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag 24.2.2016
Zusatzinfo 17 bw in 8pp plates
Sprache englisch
Maße 135 x 216 mm
Gewicht 516 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte 1918 bis 1945
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 1-78453-350-5 / 1784533505
ISBN-13 978-1-78453-350-2 / 9781784533502
Zustand Neuware
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