General Gordon

When an officer called General Gordon mad, Lord Wolseley wished he had bitten more generals—perhaps, he joked, they might catch the same madness. What could make a soldier’s life seem so extraordinary?

Seton Churchill follows Charles George Gordon through the military and political worlds of the nineteenth century, from China to Africa and Khartoum. But this is not only the story of campaigns: Churchill seeks the motive behind Gordon’s deeds, in a faith that shaped his sense of duty and his resolve to spend his life doing good. Gordon was no faultless statue; even his impatience belonged to a man who judged himself harshly. To understand the hero, Churchill argues, readers must find the key to the person within. What made Gordon’s faith a force in the world?

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