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In this critically acclaimed biography, now fully updated, Royle revises Kitchener's latter-day image as a stern taskmaster, the ultimate war lord, to reveal a

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

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 Based mostly on unpublished sources – including gov

The fact that governments lie is generally accepted today, but World War I was the first global conflict in which millions of young men were sacrificed for hidd

This interesting book looks at the British army of 1914, an army of conscripts and volunteers. The effect of this mobilization on the social and political clima