Wolsey, Wilson and the failure of the Khartoum campaign: an exercise in scapegoating and abrogation of command responsibility

This thesis is an exercise in military history and takes the form of an investigation into a notable late-nineteenth century blunder; the British Army’s failure to relieve Gordon at Khartoum. It seeks to lay bare operational realities which to date have been obfuscated by substantially successful ac...

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Main Author: Snook, M
Other Authors: Caddick-Adams, P
Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/8643