Kitchener
Subtitle: Hero and Anti-Hero
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781784533502
Subjects: Great britain, biography; Great britain, army
Description: 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.