LOW, Charles Rathbone.

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Major General Sir Frederick S. Roberts. A Memoir. First edition of this surprisingly scarce and important early biography, which covers Roberts's career up to and including the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80), where he earned the soubriquet "the Hero of Kandahar".Following the war, Charles Rathbone Low, already Garnet Wolseley's biographer, "saw potential for good sales in Roberts's life. His memoir contains a wealth of useful material, although criticism is not part of it, although Low opposed the 'forward school' of which Roberts was a spokesman. He wrote: [My book] has been compiled from the Blue Books and official despatches, and from personal reminiscences supplied in conversation and by correspondence with Sir Frederick Roberts, who himself revised the entire work, chapter by chapter'" (Atwood, p. 7).

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