Kitchener

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.

Vorwort
Revisionist new biography of Earl Kitchener, pivotal figure in World War I and British Empire history

Autorentext
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.

Inhalt
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