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

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

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.

Reviews

'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, author of Empire: The British Imperial Experience from 1765 to the Present