The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan

Categories: History

Winston Churchill's 1899 history of the Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of the Sudan. He covers the rise of the Mahdi, the fall of Khartoum and death of General Gordon, and Kitchener's campaign of 1896-98, which culminated in the Battle of Omdurman, where Churchill himself rode in the charge of the 21st Lancers.