EMINENT VICTORIAN SOLDIERS-Seekers of Glory.

This book brings together the lives of eight of Queen Victoria's most renowned and idiosyncratic generals, men who helped to create the British Empire and whose lives reflect the vigour and diversity of the age.

Hugh Gough, after fighting in the West Indies, South Africa, Spain and China, won his greatest victories against the Sikhs when he was nearly seventy in wars that added the Punjab to British India. the eccentric Charles Napier broke treaties to fight a war that added Sind (today a province in southern Pakistan) to the Empire but found time to correct the school papers of his two illegitimate daughters.

Garnet Wolseley was the victor in many a colonial war, fighting Russians, Burmese, Indians, Ashantis, Egyptians, Zulus and Sudanese. His one failure was his inability to reach Khartoum in time to save his besieged friend, 'Chinese' Gordon. The life of Gordon, the 'soldier saint' who preferred th company of boys to that of women, is also included, as is a biography of Hector Macdonald, the brave soldier who shot himself rather than face a court-martial for homosexual practices.

Horatio Kitchener, Evelyn Wood and Lord Roberts are three other generals whose lives and military careers are covered in this fascinating and thoroughly researched book. The text is accompanied by a number of contemporary pictures and photographs which help to bring to life these important and often eccentric men.

Hardcover with unclipped dustcover- 367 pages text with maps and illustrations.Very clean copy.