Books on Hector Macdonald

AUTHOR: Montgomery, John 1916-

TITLE: Toll for the brave: the tragedy of Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald

PUBLISHED: London : M. Parrish, 1963

SUBJECT: Macdonald, Hector Archibald, Sir, 1853-1903.

 

AUTHOR: Crichton Smith, Iain

TITLE: An Honourable death

PUBLISHED: London : Macmillan, 1992

SUBJECT: Macdonald, Hector Archibald, Sir, 1853-1903 -- Fiction.

 

AUTHOR: Royle, Trevor

TITLE: Death before dishonour : the true story of Fighting Mac

PUBLISHED: Edinburgh : Mainstream, c1982

PUBLISHED: New York, St Martin's Press, 1982

SUBJECT: Macdonald, Hector Archibald, Sir, 1853-1903

 

AUTHOR: Fraser, Allan

TITLE: Eachunn nan Cath (Soldier Hector): Biography of Sir Hector Macdonald

PUBLISHED: Gairm Publications, 1979

SUBJECT: Macdonald, Hector Archibald, Sir, 1853-1903

 

AUTHOR: Bassett, Ronald

TITLE: Fighting Mac : the climb to disaster of Sir Hector Macdonald,

KCB, DSO, 1853-1903

PUBLISHED: London : Macmillan, 1977

SUBJECT: Macdonald, Hector Archibald, Sir, 1853-1903 -- Fiction.

 

AUTHOR: Campbell, David

TITLE: Major-General Hector A. Macdonald

PUBLISHED: London, Hood, Douglas & Howard, 1899

SUBJECT: Macdonald, Hector Archibald, Sir, 1853-1903

 

AUTHOR: Coates, Thomas F.G.

TITLE: Hector Macdonald : or, The Private Who Became a General

PUBLISHED: London, S. W. Partridge, 1900

SUBJECT: Macdonald, Hector Archibald, Sir, 1853-1903

 

AUTHOR: Cromb, David

TITLE: Hector Macdonald

PUBLISHED: Sterling : Aeneas MacKay, 1903

SUBJECT: Hector Macdonald

 

AUTHOR: Clements, Lester L.

TITLE: Hector Macdonald: His Rise Through The Ranks And His Contributions

To The British Empire, 1853-1903

PUBLISHED: A dissertation for Doctor of Philosophy St. John's University N.Y. 1980

SUBJECT: Hector Macdonald 1853-1903

 

AUTHOR: Macleod, Kenneth I. E.

TITLE: The Ranker

PUBLISHED: Boonville, New York : Boonville Graphics, 1976

SUBJECT: Hector Macdonald

 

AUTHOR: Macleod, Kenneth I. E.

TITLE: A Victim of Fate

PUBLISHED: Boonville, New York : Boonville Graphics, 1978

SUBJECT: Hector Macdonald

 

AUTHOR: Farell, Byron

TITLE: Eminent Victorian Soldiers: Seekers of Glory

PUBLISHED: New York & London: W W Norton & Company, 1985

SUBJECT:Victorian Soldiers-Chapter on Hector Macdonald

 

AUTHOR: Ziegler, Philip

TITLE: Omdurman

PUBLISHED:New York: Dorset Press 1973

SUBJECT: The Battle of Omdurman-Chapter on Hector Macdonald

 

Other Books

(Most with reference to Hector Macdonald)

 

AUTHOR: Winston S. Churchill

TITLE: The River War

PUBLISHED: London: 1899, 1973 Prion Books Ltd: 1997

SUBJECT: Battle of Omdurman

 

AUTHOR: Madonald, John

TITLE: Great Battlefields of The World

PUBLISHED: New York: Macmillan Publishing Company 1984

SUBJECT: Great battles including Omdurman

 

AUTHOR: Featherstone, Donald

TITLE: Omdurman 1898

PUBLISHED: Great Britain: Osprey Military Campain Series #29 1993

SUBJECT: Kitchener's victory in the Sudan, Battle of Omdurman

 

AUTHOR: Harding, William/Macdonald, Donald

TITLE: War in South Africa

PUBLISHED: Melbourne: The Australian Publiahing Company 1899

SUBJECT: South Africa Campain

 

AUTHOR: Lehmann, Joseph

TITLE: The First Boer War

PUBLISHED: London: Buchan & Enright, Publishers 1972, 1985

SUBJECT: First Boer War

 

AUTHOR: Cromb, James

TITLE: The Story of Majuba Hill

PUBLISHED: Glasgow : David Bryce & Son, 1899

SUBJECT: Battle of Majuba Hill

 

AUTHOR: Ransford, Oliver

TITLE: The Battle of Majuba Hill : The First Boer War.

PUBLISHED: New York : Thomas T. Crowell Co. 1968

SUBJECT: Battle of Majuba Hill

 

AUTHOR: Farwell, Byron

TITLE: Queen Victoria's Little Wars

PUBLISHED: New York & London: W W Norton & Company, 1972

SUBJECT: British Military History

 

AUTHOR: Winston S. Churchill

TITLE: My Early Life: A Roving Commission

PUBLISHED: New York: Charles Scribner's Son's 1930, 1958

SUBJECT: Churchill's Early Years

 

AUTHOR: Rye, J. B./Groser, Horace G.

TITLE: Kitchener: In His Own Words

PUBLISHED: New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1919

SUBJECT: The Life of Kitchener

 

AUTHOR: Begbie, Harold

TITLE: Kitchener: Organizer Of Victory

PUBLISHED: Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1915

SUBJECT: The Life of Kitchener

 

AUTHOR: Pakenham, Thomas

TITLE: The Boer War

PUBLISHED: New York: Random House 1979

SUBJECT: The Boer War

 

AUTHOR: Lawrence, James

TITLE: The Savage Wars

PUBLISHED: New York, St Martin's Press, 1985

SUBJECT: British Campaigns in Africa 1870-1920

 

AUTHOR: Pakenham, Thomas

TITLE: The Scamble For Africa

PUBLISHED: New York: Avon Books 1991

SUBJECT: History of battles in Afirica 1876-1912

 

AUTHOR: Pakenham, Thomas

TITLE: The Boer War: Illustrated Edition

PUBLISHED: New York: Random House 1979, 1993

SUBJECT: The Boer War

 

Other Miscellaneous Information on Hector Macdonald

 

AUTHOR: Robert W. Service - Poet

POEM TITLE: "Fighting Mac"

TITLE: The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses

(Songs of a Sourdough)

PUBLISHED: 1907, Toronto: The Ryerson Press 1941

SUBJECT: Poems

 

Author: Fowler, Jack Beresford.
Title: "General Sir Hector MacDonald" (a play in nine epsidoes) by J.
Beresford Fowler and Sylvia Archer ...
Publisher: Melbourne, Australia [The authors, 1942].
Pages: 4 p. l., [7]-70, [1] p. 23 cm.
Notes: English
Subjects: Macdonald, Hector Archibald, -- Sir, -- 1852-1903 -- Drama.
Other authors: Archer, Sylvia joint author.

In 1976, BBC TV  Scotland produced a documentary about Sir Hector, directed by James Wilson, with Ian Cuthbertson as narrator, shown in Canada and Great Britain.

In 1982 Scottish TV produced one on Sir Hector directed by Archie McArthur.

Donald Mackenzie's play, "Fighting Mac" which was performed
at the Traverse Theater, Edinburgh in January 1978.

1996 Strategic Simulations Inc. produced a PC wargame called " Age
of Rifles" the Battle of Omdurman is one of the battles you can reenact,
Hector Macdonald is mentioned and can play the role of Macdonald.