Charles Beresford, 1st Baron Beresford, was one of the most prominent and controversial figures in the late Victorian and Edwardian Royal Navy. His memoirs cover a long and eventful career that included service in the Egyptian campaign of 1882, the relief expedition for General Gordon at Khartoum, and his long-running feud with Admiral Lord Fisher over naval reform — a dispute that scandalized Edwardian Britain.
Outspoken and self-assured, Beresford’s account is a vivid record of the age of high imperialism as seen from the quarterdeck. Download the free EPUB for a robust and entertaining naval memoir.