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 ...
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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 was shortlisted for The Society for Army Historical Research's 2015 Templar Prize.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed. First Edition. A hardback First Edition in Fine condition, in a similar dustjacket. This copy bears a handwritten personal inscription which is SIGNED by the author. Already a very scarce title, and at the time of listing this was the only signed copy available. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (the pictures you see on Alibris are NOT our own).
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NF in NF jacket. Octavo. Dark brown cloth covered boards and spine with shiny gilt lettering on the spine. Book has a light bumping at the head and tail of the spine with a trace of accompanying rubbing. White endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 496 pages. Illustrated with a section of photographs and artwork in the center of the book. Dust Jacket-has a very faint wrinkle at the very bottom of the tail of the spine and just the faintest trace of rubbing at the tip of the upper rear outside corner-jacket otherwise clean, bright, and sharp. Heavier than average book will require additional postage on orders requesting International or Priority shipping services. A lovely copy!
