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Major-General Sir Frederick S. Roberts, bart., V. C., G. C. B., C. I. E., R. A., a memoir

Major-General Sir Frederick S. Roberts, bart., V. C., G. C. B., C. I. E., R. A., a memoir

Charles Rathbone Low

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Military BiographiesGeneral Military HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 9353607612
ISBN13: 9789353607616
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 10 2019
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Few soldiers embodied the Victorian army like Sir Frederick Roberts, the indomitable general who wore the Victoria Cross and marched at the heart of empire. War, honour and empire collide. In this Victorian army biography, Charles Rathbone Low follows Roberts's rise amid the turmoil of colonial India, including the Indian Mutiny and the Anglo-Afghan struggle on the North-West Frontier. Written within Roberts's own lifetime, it reads as a nineteenth century war memoir: close to events and attentive to the character of a commander who became legend. As a near-contemporary complete British general biography, this memoir offers a portrait of the Victorian era British army at war and at rest: staff tents and frontier forts, dusty marches and barrack-room routine. Low, a military historian, sets Roberts within the story of the British Empire in India and colonial India campaigns, making this an essential indian mutiny campaign narrative and anglo afghan war history source for military history students and British Empire enthusiasts alike. It evokes the same atmosphere later associated with Rudyard Kipling British India, while remaining grounded in documented service and sober analysis. In print again, it speaks equally to casual readers of narrative military history and to collectors of serious biography. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure - it deserves a place in every classic military biography collection.

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