Download or read book Fighting Mac written by Trevor Royle and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a spring morning in 1903, Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald, one of Britain's greatest military heroes, took his life in a hotel room in Paris. A few days later he was buried hastily in an Edinburgh cemetary as his fellow countrymen tried to come to terms with the fact that one of Scotland's most famous soldiers had ended his life rather than face charges against his character.The suicide and its aftermath created a national scandal and one which still reverberates long after those dramatic events - it is now clear that the official files dealing with his case, the papers of the Judge Advocate have been destroyed. Macdonald or 'Fighting Mac' as he was known to an adoring public, was no ordinary soldier. A crofter's son who had risen from the ranks in the Victorian army, he covered himself with glory during a long and successful military career and in 1898 was widely acknowledged as the true hero of the Battle of Omdurman, which cemented British Imperial rule in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Everything lay at his feet - a knighthood, honours, the respect of fellow generals such as Roberts and Kitchener - but Macdonald's career came to a shocking full stop when he stood accused of homosexuality and was ordered to face a court martial. Unable to come to terms with the disgrace, he committed suicide. That should have been the end of his story but so powerful was the myth created by Fighting Mac that people refused to believe he was dead. Soon rumours were circulating that Macdonald had faked his death and had adopted the persona of a prominent Prussian officer, the future Field Marshal August con Mackensen, one of Germany's great leaders during the First World War. FIGHTING MAC tells the true story behind his disgrace and sheds new light on the myths....

Download or read book General Sir Hector Macdonald written by David Campbell (of Montrose Academy.) and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life and Opinions of Major General Sir Charles Metcalfe MacGregor written by Sir Charles Metcalfe MacGregor and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The life and opinions of major general Sir Charles Metcalfe Macgregor quartermaster general in India written by Charlotte Macgregor and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life Ad Opinions of Major General Sir Charles Metcalfe MacGregor written by Sir Charles Metcalfe MacGregor and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Celestial Empire written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hector Macdonald written by Thomas F. G. Coates and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life of a Regiment written by Charles Greenhill Gardyne and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Toll for the Brave written by John Montgomery and published by London, M. Parrish [c1963]. This book was released on 1963 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Making Of The British Army written by Allan Mallinson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edgehill, 1642: Surveying the disastrous scene in the aftermath of the first battle of the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell realized that war could no longer be waged in the old, feudal way: there had to be system and discipline, and therefore - eventually - a standing professional army. From the 'New Model Army' of Cromwell's distant vision, former soldier Allan Mallinson shows us the people and events that have shaped the British army we know today. How Marlborough's momentous victory at Blenheim is linked to Wellington's at Waterloo; how the desperate fight at Rorke's Drift in 1879 underpinned the heroism of the airborne forces at Arnhem in 1944; and why Montgomery's momentous victory at El Alamein mattered long after the Second World War was over . . . From the British Army's origins at the battle of Edgehill to the recent conflict in Afghanistan, The Making of the British Army is history at its most relevant - and most dramatic.

Download or read book A British Profession of Arms written by Ian F. W. Beckett and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You offer yourself to be slain,” General Sir John Hackett once observed, remarking on the military profession. “This is the essence of being a soldier.” For this reason as much as any other, the British army has invariably been seen as standing apart from other professions—and sometimes from society as a whole. A British Profession of Arms effectively counters this view. In this definitive study of the late Victorian army, distinguished scholar Ian F. W. Beckett finds that the British soldier, like any other professional, was motivated by considerations of material reward and career advancement. Within the context of debates about both the evolution of Victorian professions and the nature of military professionalism, Beckett considers the late Victorian officer corps as a case study for weighing distinctions between the British soldier and his civilian counterparts. Beckett examines the role of personality, politics, and patronage in the selection and promotion of officers. He looks, too, at the internal and external influences that extended from the press and public opinion to the rivalry of the so-called rings of adherents of major figures such as Garnet Wolseley and Frederick Roberts. In particular, he considers these processes at play in high command in the Second Afghan War (1878–81), the Anglo-Zulu War (1879), and the South African War (1899–1902). Based on more than thirty years of research into surviving official, semiofficial, and private correspondence, Beckett’s work offers an intimate and occasionally amusing picture of what might affect an officer’s career: wealth, wives, and family status; promotion boards and strategic preferences; performance in the field and diplomatic outcomes. It is a remarkable depiction of the British profession of arms, unparalleled in breadth, depth, and detail.

Download or read book Asian Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning Apr. 1895, includes the Proceedings of the East India Association.

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Download or read book The Letters of Rudyard Kipling written by Thomas Pinney and published by Springer. This book was released on 1995-12-13 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The letters bring the man marvellously alive...a perfect bedside book and an important contribution to Kipling scholarship.' - Ian McIntyre, Times Volume 3 of Kipling's Letters covers the decade 1900-10, the years in which Kipling published Kim, Just So Stories, The Five Nations, Traffics and Discoveries, Puck of Pook's Hill, Actions and Reactions, and Rewards and Fairies. The narrative of his life includes the years in South Africa during and after the Boer War, his move to Bateman's in Sussex, his increasing involvement in the politics of preparedness and the growing record of his honours, culminating in the Nobel Prize.

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Download or read book Discourses of Empire and Commonwealth written by Sandra Robinson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Discourses of Empire and Commonwealth a range of prominent writers and critics reflect on the legacy of imperialism and the role of writers in forging a new, more cosmopolitan identity. The contributors, writing about a wide range of countries, affirm the freedom of the human spirit, even within unjust or oppressive social systems. They show the power of words to illuminate injustices and unite different peoples. Salman Rushdie famously declared that Commonwealth Literature has had its day: this book provides a vital antidote to this idea. Editors Sandra Robinson and Alastair Niven have put together this mixture of personal reflections, critical overviews, historical re-evaluations and creative works to illustrate the vitality of this genre.