Kitchener's Sword-Arm - The Life and Campaigns of General Sir Archibald Hunter

Spellmount Ltd. 1996

This detailed and authoritative book is the biography of General Sir Archibald Hunter. a remarkable and formidable Victorian and a frontline soldier. He planned and fought the battles that made Kitchener's reputation in the Sudan and at the siege of Ladysmith he led a daring and successful night sortie to spike Boer guns and commanding 17,000 troops, he cleverly cornered and captured 4,300 Boers in the mountains. He was promoted to full General at 49 but later was mysteriously side-lined in the First World War, training Kitchener's armies...