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CHURCHILL, Sir Winston S. River War, The. An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan. 1899

Sir Winston Churchill On Lord Kitchener in KhartoumCHURCHILL, [Sir] Winston S. The River War. An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan. Edited by Col. F. Rhodes, D.S.O. Illustrated by Angus McNeill, Seaforth Highlanders. In two volumes. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899.First edition. Two octavo volumes. xxii, [2], 462, [2, blank]; x, [4], 499, [1, blank] pp. Seven photogravure portraits (including frontispieces) with tissue guards, twenty-three inserted color maps (twenty folding), and numerous maps and illustrations in the text. Original dark blue cloth with front covers pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt with gilt facsimile signature at lower right and spines pictorially stamped and lettered in gilt with two gilt rules and top and bottom. Bookplates to front pastedown endpapers. A very good copy. The first object of this book is to relate in exact military detail the operations directed by Lord Kitchener of Khartoum on the Upper Nile from April 1896 to February 1899, which I have called The River War, and which resulted in the reconquest of the Egyptian Soudan. But in order that the reader may understand, and even sympathise with the emotions which these events excited, I have prefixed a general survey of the geography, aspect, and history of the country, and have tried to show its connection with Egypt and Great Britain (Preface).A history of the British involvement in the Sudan and the conflict between the British forces led by Lord Kitchener and Dervish forces led by a self proclaimed Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad who had embarked on a campaign to conquer Egypt, to drive out the non-Muslim infidels and make way for the second coming of the Islamic Mahdi.Woods A2(a).

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