Eminent Victorian Soldiers: Seekers of Glory

by Byron Farwell

Overview

This book brings together the lives of eight of Queen Victoria's most renowned and idiosyncratic generals, men who helped create the British Empire and whose lives reflect the vigor and diversity of the age.

They are: Hugh Gough, Charles Napier, Charles Gordon, Frederick Roberts, Garnet Wolseley, Evelyn Wood, Hector Macdonald, and Herbert Kitchener.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393305333
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	06/17/1988
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

During the Second World War, Byron Farwell (1921–1999) served as a captain of engineers attached to the Mediterranean Allied Air Force in the British Eighth Army area.

Table of Contents

	List of Illustrations	9
	Maps	11
	Author's Note	15
Chapter 1	Hugh Gough (1779-1869)	21
Chapter 2	Charles Napier (1782-1855)	62
Chapter 3	Charles Gordon (1833-1886)	102
Chapter 4	Frederick Roberts (1832-1914)	147
Chapter 5	Garnet Wolseley (1833-1913)	192
Chapter 6	Evelyn Wood (1838-1919)	239
Chapter 7	Hector Macdonald (1853-1903)	267
Chapter 8	Herbert Kitchener (1850-1916)	302
	Abbreviations	349
	Glossary	351
	Select Bibliography	353
	Index	357

Editorial Reviews

"[Mr. Farwell] reminds us how much of history has always been about war. The figures he etches are Horatio Alger types with epaulets, conventional men whom luck and daring raised to unconventional situations. . . . Sparely but convincingly, Mr. Farwell conveys a sense of the society they worked in, one that tolerated eccentricity and excess but not transgressions of its male mythology—in which riding and religion were crucial, along with laudanum and chloral and stoic hardihood. Those who shun analyses and learned footnotes, preferring a thundering tale well told—or rather eight of them—should not miss this book."

Eugen Weber