Adrian Greenwood

Victoria's Scottish Lion (eBook, ePUB)

The Life of Colin Campbell, Lord Clyde

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From humble Glasgow beginnings, Colin Campbell rose to become Scotland's finest general and a favourite of Queen Victoria. In his fifty-year career he fought through the Peninsula, the Crimea, China and India, and still found time to contain a slave revolt, a Chartist revolution and Ireland's Tithe War. Through a combination of personal courage, compassionate leadership and genius for military strategy he became an idol for the men who served under him. This undisputed hero, whose memory has grown faint beside celebrated warriors of the Victorian age, was a soldier ahead of his time - the first working-class field marshal, with strong humanitarian leanings and an instinct for harnessing the power of the press. In the first major biography of Campbell since 1880 his career is radically reinterpreted and the life of this very private man is revealed. 'Victoria's Scottish Lion' has been shortlisted for The Society for Army Historical Research's 2015 Templar Prize.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The History Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780750965545
• Artikelnr.: 42883755

Autorenporträt

Adrian Greenwood read PPE at Oxford and then gained an MBA at Imperial College, London. A dealer in rare books, he has written many articles for magazines and is the author of a biography of Field Marshal Colin Campbell for The History Press.