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Historical person
1833–1885
Charles George Gordon, often called Gordon of Khartoum, was a British army officer associated with imperial campaigns in China, Egypt and Sudan. His death during the fall of Khartoum in 1885 became a major event in Victorian imperial memory.
In Wilbur Smith’s The Triumph of the Sun, Khartoum is surrounded by the forces of Muhammad Ahmad, the Mahdi, as General Charles Gordon attempts to hold the city for the Egyptian government. Griff Hosker’s Soldier of the Queen places Charles George Gordon within a narrative shaped by court politics and dynastic power, military command and battlefield decision-making, and family, marriage and personal loyalty. Other novels featuring Charles George Gordon include Griff Hosker’s An Officer and a Gentleman, Griff Hosker’s Desert War, Griff Hosker’s For King and Country, Griff Hosker’s Omdurman, and Griff Hosker’s Redcoat’s Rifle.
Series
Soldier of the Queen follows the Roberts family through the late Victorian and Edwardian imperial army. The books move from Rorke’s Drift and Egypt to Sudan, oil interests, desert garrisons and pre-war diplomacy, showing imperial soldiering as a mixture of danger, ambition, family strain and long overseas service.
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This crossover sequence brings the Ballantyne and Courtney families together during the late nineteenth-century contest for power in Africa. Its action moves from the Mahdist siege of Khartoum to Ethiopia’s resistance to Italian invasion and the opening of the Second Boer War.
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The Jack Windrush series follows a Victorian army officer from the Second Anglo-Burmese War through the Crimea, the Indian Rebellion, frontier campaigns, West Africa, Afghanistan, Egypt and the Sudan. Beginning as an ambitious young lieutenant in the disregarded 113th Foot, Windrush becomes an experienced commander increasingly sceptical of…
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Non Fiction
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