All the Pasha's Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army and the Making of Modern Egypt. By Khaled Fahmy. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xviii, 334. $59.95.) Although the army has long been recognized as the centerpiece of Mehmed Ali's "project," little attention has been given to the conditions of the soldiers whose efforts secured hereditary rule over Egypt for Mehmed Ali and his family. This historiographical gap is filled by this excellent work, which tells the story of the army "... from the point of view of the people who did the actual fighting and suffered most from its atrocities...
