Eminent Victorian Soldiers: Seekers of Glory

by Byron Farwell (Author), Byron Farwell (Author)

New
Paperback
1988
$13.04

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

Synopsis

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

$13.04

Save:$1.78 (12%)

Quantity

Temporarily out of stock

More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 10 Aug 1988
ISBN 10: 0393305333
ISBN 13: 9780393305333

Media 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 - New York Times Book Review

Author Bio

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.