Beyond the Reach of Empire: Wolseley's Failed Campaign to Save Gordon and Khartoum
'Mike Snook's research and narrative mirror the scale of Victorian Britain's herculean effort to save General Gordon. Ultimately though the author's quest is crowned with success, not least because he brings to his story the understanding of a fighting soldier, cutting through the jingoism and bombast of earlier accounts, laying bare the reasons for the campaign's failure.'  Mark Urban, author of Rifles: Six Years with Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters