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LETTERS FROM THE CRIMEA, THE DANUBE AND ARMENIA
AUGUST 18, 1854, TO NOVEMBER 17, 1858 |
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Charles George Gordon, Demetrius Charles Boulger (Editor) |
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ISBN 10: |
1108044778 |
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9781108044776 |
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CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION |
Pub. date: |
16 February, 2012 |
Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - European History |
Pages: |
228 |
Description: |
Published in 1884 when the controversial general's popularity was at its height, these letters offer an insight into his personality. |
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This volume of letters was published in 1884, when General Gordon (1833-85) was engaged in the controversial defence of Khartoum that claimed his life the following year. The reputation of 'Chinese' Gordon, a complex figure, unpopular with the British government and military but adored by the people and press, was fed by works such as this. Covering his time in the Crimea as a young lieutenant, and later in the drawing up of the new frontiers between the Russian and Ottoman empires, these letters were published by his later biographer, Demetrius C. Boulger (1853-1928) as evidence of Gordon's strength of character and value as a military leader. One reviewer noted in them an 'indomitable cheerfulness of disposition, patient endurance, trustful fatalism, simple courage and faith, ...[and] single-hearted devotion to duty', words which reflected the popular view of Gordon as a symbol of British national pride and imperial honour. |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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