General Gordon

by Richard Garrett

240 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1974

Reviews

[Dropbear123 · Rating 3 out of 5]

3/5

Not much to say about it really. Just a straight forward biography. Not very long at 230 pages but it gets all the main information across and has plenty of detail. Decently written and fairly positive about Gordon himself.

[Trawets · Rating 3 out of 5]

Richard Garrett gives us a respectful but not reverential portrait of Major General Charles "Chinese" Gordon a soldier of the Victorian era mistrusted by his own government, underused by his own superiors but valued by foreign governments and loved by those that he took responsibility for. A Royal Engineer he was a master tactician and a wise administrator sadly abandoned by his own government in his final hour of peril.