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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 ...
1 de abr. de 2019 · The River War by Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965. Publication date 1902 Usage Public Domain Mark 1.0 Topics
30 de abr. de 2021 · The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan, by Winston Spencer Churchill, edited by James W. Muller (St. Augustine’s Press in association with the International Churchill Society, two volumes, 1,560 pp., $150) T he Nile is the river in question. Without it, no war. “It is the cause of the war,” Churchill writes.
8 de feb. de 2022 · The River War is dominated by the story of those decisive measures and by the interwoven themes of the logistical challenges of the war against the Mahdi’s chosen successor, the causes that spurred the Dervishes and the unavoidable weaknesses and fatal misconceptions that led them to doom at Omdurman, and the nature of the struggle between civilization and savagery.
In 'The River War,' Winston Churchill provides a detailed account of the British campaign in the Sudan as part of the larger Mahdist War. This historical narrative, penned by Churchill with the meticulous detail of a military historian and the flair of a seasoned storyteller, addresses the complexity of imperial geopolitics in the late 19th century.
River War 2V. Historical Account of Reconquest of Soudan. by Winston S. Churchill. Edited by James W. Muller. Preface by Lady Soames. 1560 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 4.50 in. Hardcover. 9781587317002. Published: April 2021.
In The River War, Winston Churchill recounts a critical but often overlooked episode from the days when the British Empire was at the height of its power: the operations directed by Lord Kitchener of Khartoum on the Upper Nile from 1896 to 1899, which led to England's reconquest of the Egyptian Sudan. After the 1881 rebellion of the Mahdi had ...
