The Thinking Man's Soldier: The Life and Career of General Sir Henry Brackenbury 1837-1914

by Christopher Brice

Book Overview

Sir Henry Brackenbury is a now largely forgotten but extremely important soldier, writer, and administrator of the late Victorian era. To Lord Wolseley Brackenbury was "not one of but the cleverest man in the army" and "that first-rate man of business", to the conservative Duke of Cambridge he was "a very dangerous man" whilst King Edward VII remembered him as the man who "pulled the army out of a hole in South African".

Born to a minor Lincolnshire...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1910777404
• ISBN13: 9781910777404
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Helion & Company
• Length: 370 Pages