Eminent Victorian Soldiers: Seekers of Glory - Hardcover

Farwell, Byron

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393018849 ISBN 13: 9780393018844

Publisher: WW Norton & Co, 1985

Synopsis

Hardback book with dust jacket titled EMINENT VICTORIAN SOLDIERS: Seekers of Glory by Byron Farwell. Published by W.W.Norton in 1985 - first edition. Illustrated with vintage photographs and drawings. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Base2-D-TS) rareviewbooks

About this title

About the Author:

During the Second World War, Byron Farwell (1921–1999) served as a captain of engineers attached to the Mediterranean Allied Air Force in the British Eighth Army area.

Review:

“[Mr. Farwell] reminds us how much of history has always been about war. The figures he etches are Horatio Alger types with epaulets, conventional men whom luck and daring raised to unconventional situations. . . . Sparely but convincingly, Mr. Farwell conveys a sense of the society they worked in, one that tolerated eccentricity and excess but not transgressions of its male mythology―in which riding and religion were crucial, along with laudanum and chloral and stoic hardihood. Those who shun analyses and learned footnotes, preferring a thundering tale well told―or rather eight of them―should not miss this book.”
- Eugen Weber, New York Times Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0393018849
• ISBN 13: 9780393018844
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 367