Kitchener

ISBN: 9781784533502 出版年：2016 页码：327 C Brad Faught Bloomsbury Publishing

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 tBritish soldier in the world during tof European imperialism, and a celebrated and sometimes controversial pro-consul and administrator. At his death 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.