Kitchener: Hero and Anti-Hero

by C. Brad Faught

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780857729606
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	02/24/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

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.
C. Brad Faught is Professor and Chair of the Department of History and Global Studies at Tyndale University, 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 several books, including Cairo 1921: Ten Days that Made the Middle East.

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

a clear and readable biography with a coherent chronology …the author deals fairly and deftly with some of the more notably contentious episodes in Kitchener’s life…this highly enjoyable biography achieves its stated purpose and provides a suitable and balanced re-appraisal of Kitchener.”

Andrew Winrow

Written in a very clear and readable style and based upon thorough and excellent research. The various and often dramatic phases of Kitchener's rapid rise to national and international fame are chronicled with great skill, shrewdness and sensitivity... one of the best biographies of Kitchener to be written so far.

Denis Judd