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In contrast to the existing biographies which treat Kitchener as British, the author of Kitchener: The Man, considers him an outsider within the British establishment. Of his 64 years, a mere 11, and those not consecutive, were spent in England. He learned from those around him, ways that were not always understood and appreciated by those educated

Sets out the multiple causes of the First Anglo-Afghan War; the initial British aims for honour and glory and its end in a humiliating British defeat.

This is an unabridged translation of Theodor Fontane's Der deutsche Krieg von 1866, one of the most complete and celebrated histories of the Austro-Prussian War.

Addressing a historical period so far mostly ignored, this new work provides some examples of the many interesting and talented officers who exercised command during the Victorian Era.