Gordon, C: Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army A Victorian Military Memoir of Colonial Service, Army Medicine, and Imperial Campaigns
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
28.11.2023
Verlag
Sharp InkSeitenzahl
216
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/1,5 cm
Gewicht
471 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-283-4198-5
Recollections of Thirty-nine Years in the Army is a substantial Victorian military memoir, tracing the routines, hardships, and institutional culture of long service in the British Army. Gordon's narrative ranges from barrack life and campaign experience to questions of discipline, health, logistics, and imperial administration. Written in a measured, observant prose rather than a sensational manner, the book belongs to the nineteenth-century tradition of professional recollection, in which personal memory becomes evidence for the workings of empire and the evolution of modern military organization. Sir Charles Alexander Gordon was not merely a soldierly observer but a distinguished army medical officer, and that background shapes the book's distinctive perspective. His attention to sanitation, hospital practice, climate, disease, and the bodily cost of service reflects the concerns of a practitioner who had seen war through its consequences as much as through its battles. His career gave him intimate knowledge of both command structures and the ordinary sufferings of enlisted men. This volume is recommended to readers interested in Victorian military history, imperial life, and the development of army medicine. It rewards those seeking more than battlefield anecdote: Gordon offers a disciplined, humane, and historically valuable account of service, memory, and reform within the nineteenth-century British Army.
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