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LETTERS FROM THE CRIMEA, THE DANUBE AND ARMENIA
AUGUST 18, 1854, TO NOVEMBER 17, 1858 |
| By: |
Charles George Gordon, Demetrius C. Boulger (Editor) |
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Electronic book text |
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£60.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1139176943 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781139176941 |
| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
5 May, 2012 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - European History |
| Description: |
Published in 1884 when the controversial general's popularity was at its height, these letters offer an insight into his personality. |
| Synopsis: |
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 |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing) |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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