Townshend of Kut

 A Biography of Major-General Sir Charles Townshend

A. J. Bark

First Edition 1967

Hardcover

FIRST EDITIONS

Using letters and the Major's copious diaries the Author has been able to define the many facets of a career which stretched from commands in Egypt, in the expedition to relieve Gordon at Khartoum, in India, South Africa, Burma and Paris, to the early glory of the Mesopotamian campaign and the bitterness of Townhend's post-war failure as an MP and self-appointed emissary to the Turks of Mustafa Kemal. 265 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs.