Kitchener: Hero and Anti-Hero

by C. Brad Faught

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784533505
• ISBN13: 9781784533502
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.6"