Thirty-six years after this publication, MBL
wrote of the way [m]uch is left out that should have been put into official biographies, because of the writer's need to keep a nervous eye cocked on certain...
Textual Production
Marie Belloc Lowndes
Only a few months later there came from MBL
another war novel, Lilla: A Part of her Life, about a woman whose husband is presumed lost in action but returns to find her remarried...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Jan Morris
This time the story begins with Kitchener
's re-taking of Khartoum, and ends with the death in 1965 of Winston Churchill
, presented as the last imperialist. In it JM
appeals to her own...
Timeline
2 September 1898: General Herbert Kitchener led the UK forces...
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2 September 1898
General Herbert Kitchener
led the UK forces in the Battle of Omdurman, and the capture of Khartoum.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
I: 590, 731-4
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. 4th ed., Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
869
5 June 1916: Lord Kitchener was drowned when the HMS Hampshire...
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5 June 1916
Lord Kitchener
was drowned when the HMS Hampshire sank after hitting a mine off the Orkney Islands.
Cook, Chris, and John, 1946 - Stevenson. The Longman Handbook of Modern British History 1714-1987. 2nd ed., Longman, 1988.
291
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
353
1 July 1916: A British advance on the River Somme resulted...
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1 July 1916
A British advance on the River Somme resulted in appalling losses: 60,000 (including 19,000 British) died the first day, and 400,000 British by the end of the battle, on 18 November.
Morgan, Kenneth O., editor. The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain. Oxford University Press, 1984.
526
Cannan, May, and Bevil Quiller-Couch. The Tears of War. Editor Fyfe, Charlotte, Cavalier Books, 2000.
54
1946: Gordon Memorial College in Khartoum was taken...