Never To Be Taken Alive: The Biography of General Gordon (1985) By Roy MacGregor-Hastie
 
The death in January 1885 of Charles George Gordon, Governor General of the Sudan, at the head of a staircase in his palace at Khartoum, plunged all Britain into mourning. Queen Victoria wrote to Gordon's sister, Augusta: 'To think of your dear, noble heroic brother, who served his country and the Queen so truly, so heroically, with a self sacrifice so edifying to the world, not having been rescued . . . is to me grief inexpressible!' 
 
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
195 pages
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