Fergus Nicoll: 1 book
Gladstone, Gordon and the Sudan Wars
The Battle over Imperial Invention in the Victorian Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
General Gordon’s death in Khartoum on 26 January 1885 – and the fall of the besieged city to the forces of the Mahdi – was a crucial episode in British imperial history. It was deeply controversial at the time, and it still is today. Gordon has routinely been depicted as the hero of the story,...
