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Cookie akzeptierenGeorge. H. Cassar
Kitchener as Proconsul of Egypt, 1911-1914
- Springer International Publishing
- 2016
- Gebunden
- 276 Seiten
- ISBN 9783319393629
This book covers the tenure of Kitchener as Proconsul in Egypt in the years preceding the First World War. Based mostly on unpublished sources ¿ including government records and private papers ¿ it not only fills a gap in the life and career of Kitchener, the most famous soldier in Britain since Wellington, but it also deals with an important but practically unknown period in Egyptian history. George Cassar shows Kitchener to be an ardent imperialist, but one who had a sense of responsibility to the country he governed. Exchanging his field marshal¿s uniform for the dress of a statesman, he arrived in Egypt when British
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