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Churchill comments at length on the mechanisation of war with use of the telegraph, railroad, and a new generation of weaponry. been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades.
The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan ( De Rivieroorlog: Een Historisch Verslag van de Herovering van Soedan) is een boek uit 1899 geschreven door Winston Churchill in de tijd dat hij officier was in het British Army (25 jaar oud). The River War was het tweede boek van Churchill, na The Story of the Malakand Field ...
Churchill -- long before his political career leading the free world against Germany in World War II -- wrangled his way into Kitchener's campaign up the Nile. He recounts the rise of the Mahdi, the defeat of Gordon at Khartoum, and the use of "scientific warfare"-- a combination of telegraph, railroad, armored steamboats, and the new Maxim Gun, combined with the discipline of the British Army ...
In The River War, Winston Churchill recounts the operations directed by Lord Kitchener of Khartoum on the Upper Nile from 1896 to 1899 that led to England's reconquest of the Egyptian Sudan. Churchill was present at the decisive battle of Omdurman, and he wrote this book while he was still a young cavalry officer.
The River War by Winston Churchill. Project Gutenberg Release #4943 Select author names above for additional information and titles. Download the ebook in a format below.
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1933. Hardcover. This is the first printing of the bibliographically significant 1933 edition of Churchill's second book in the scarce dust jacket. Originally published in 1899, The River War recounts Churchill's experiences and reflections concerning British involvement in the Sudan, including Churchill’s participation in “the last great British cavalry charge ...
5 de may. de 2014 · This is Volume 1 of the 1899 first edition of Winston Churchill's River War and Reconquest of the Soudan. I apologize for the different tone of some pages; we had to carefully photograph even pages, then odd, and the ambient light in the room changed over the hours. I was too exhausted to re-do the project.
