Victoria's generals
By: edited by Steven J. Corvi & Ian F.W. Beckett
Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Barnsley, South Yorkshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781844159185
Description: The senior British generals of the Victorian era were heroes of their time. As soldiers, administrators and battlefield commanders they represented the empire at the height of its power. But they were a disparate, sometimes fractious group of men, exhibiting many of the failings as well as the strengths of the British army of the late nineteenth-century. This study of these eminent military men gives insight into their careers, into the British army of their day and into a now-remote period when Britain was a world power.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Garnet Wolseley / by Steven J. Corvi -- Evelyn Wood / by Stephen Manning -- Redvers Buller / by Stephen M. Miller -- George Colley / by Ian F.W. Beckett -- Lord Chelmsford / by John Laband -- Charles Gordon / by Gerald Herman -- Frederick Roberts / by André Wessels -- Herbert Kitchener / by Keith Surridge.