C. Brad Faught is Professor and Chair of the Department of History and Global Studies at Tyndale University, Toronto. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Senior Fellow of Massey College at the University of Toronto. He is the author of several books, including Cairo 1921: Ten Days that Made the Middle East.

Professor Faught has written a concise, stimulating account of the life and times of Allenby. He communicates the romanticism and complexity of the conflicts in which he was embroiled, and brings his story to a new audience at a time when the Middle East is again, as so often, headline news.