Kitchener

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.

• IntroductionA Peripatetic ChildhoodLearning to be a SoldierTo Palestine and the Near EastIn the Land of the PharaohsThe Deserts of SudanSirdar of the Egyptian ArmyVictory at OmdurmanAt Fashoda with the FrenchFrom Khartoum to Cape TownThe South African WarTo IndiaEgypt AgainWarlordA Watery Grave and an Enduring Legend

'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