Aubrey Herbert (1880–1923)
Auteur de Mons, Anzac and Kut
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Aubrey Herbert
Ben Kendim : a record of eastern travel 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Herbert, Aubrey Nigel Henry Molyneux
- Date de naissance
- 1880-04-03
- Date de décès
- 1923-09-26
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Highclere Castle, Newbury, Berkshire, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- London, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
Portofino, Italy - Études
- Eton College, Eton, Berkshire, England, UK
Oxford University (Balliol College) - Professions
- Member of Parliament (UK)
soldier
diplomat - Relations
- Waugh, Evelyn (son-in-law)
Carnarvon, Henry Howard Molyneux Herbert, 4th Earl of (father)
Waugh, Auberon (grandson)
Fitzherbert, Margaret (granddaughter) - Organisations
- British Army
UK Parliament
Membres
Critiques
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 20
- Popularité
- #589,235
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 5
The book is unique in many aspects. While the prose leaves something to be desired, his diary covers a lot of the horror(s) of each front, particularly with his coverage of the Dardanelles campaign, where his peers, and fellow soldiers were shot all around him, and he lived to tell the tale.
What I found most interesting, and others (such as Lengel did not), was his albeit brief narrative of his time in Mesopotamia. He served along with T.E. Lawrence and Col Beach as the negotiators with the Turks over Gen Townshend's division, holed up at Kut. There is very little that has been written about the negotiations surrounding the ultimate unconditiional surrender of British forces at Kut, and Herbert has given us a unique perspective.
Some of the people that Herbert ran across during his brief time in Mesopotamia read like a whos who of the campaign: aside from all of the senior military officers of that time, he met Lt Col Leachman and Gertrude Bell, both who played an important behind the scenes role in the Mesopotamian Campaign. Additionally, he spent a great deal of time with CAPT Nunn, who headed British Naval forces in Mesopotamia.
A great quick read; and like many of the other books written at the time in Mesopotamia, ending quite abruptly.… (plus d'informations)