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1 de ago. de 2023 · Winston S. Churchill described The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan as “a tale of blood and war” (I 1)—and it does not disappoint. No one who reads it will fail to understand why he eventually won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The longest and best of his early books (he eventually wrote 43), Churchill ...
THE RIVER WAR An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan. What We Have » [1899] (Cohen A2) (Woods A2) Arguably the most aesthetically beautiful of Churchill’s original trade editions, The River War is a brilliant history of British involvement in the Sudan and the campaign for its reconquest: arresting, insightful, with tremendous narrative and descriptive power.
The traveller clings to the strong river as to an old friend, staunch in the hour of need. All the world blazes, but here is shade. The deserts are hot, but the Nile is cool. The land is parched, but here is abundant water. The picture painted in burnt sienna is relieved by a grateful flash of green.
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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: 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 ...
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.
