Bücher von Byron Farwell

Finding Dr. Livingston was only one of many exploits in the remarkable life of the great African explorer Henry M. Stanley. In a narrative that reads like a novel, Byron Farwell tells the story of this complex man who made a major contribution o the world's knowledge. He describes his bitter childhood, his coming to America where he found a friend and a name, his service in the American Civil War, his African adventures, and his late but happy marriage.

When the United States finally declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917, the British and French armies were at a point of total exhaustion.

This is an upstairs-downstairs view of the Victorian-Edwardian army, one of the world's most peculiar fighting forces. The battles it fought are household words, but the idiosyncracies and eccentricities of its soldiers and the often appalling conditions under which they lived have gone largely unrecorded. Byron Farwell explores here the lives of officers and men, their foibles, gallantry, and diversions, their discipline and their rewards.

"Filled with interesting and often highly entertaining historical anecdotes, and there are some rare photographs and illustrations... Lucid, well written... A very sound contribution to our understanding of British Empire and South Asian history."-Choice

They are: Hugh Gough, Charles Napier, Charles Gordon, Frederick Roberts, Garnet Wolseley, Evelyn Wood, Hector Macdonald, and Herbert Kitchener.

"Tells all the old stories of imperial heroism con brio." -Noel Annan, New York Review of Books