NEVER TO BE TAKEN ALIVE

Author: Roy MacGregor-Hastie

Publisher: Sidgwick and Jackson

Year published: 1985

Pagination: xii + 194pp, 19 illustrations

Condition: Fine in d/w

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May have dustmarks on top edge. General Charles George Gordon, 1833-1885, was a Victorian hero. This is an account of the extraordinary life of "Chinese" Gordon, Gordon of Khartoum - a patriot who spent most of his life in the service of foreign powers. A devout Christian, he was eccentric in behaviour and lifestyle. He served in the Crimea, China and the Sudan, where he met his spectacular death at Khartoum at the hands of the Mahdi's Dervishes.