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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 ...
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.
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 ...
15 de feb. de 2015 · The River War-An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan is a classic military history text by Winston Churchill. The reconquest of the Egyptian Sudan was a military achievement remarkable first of all for the fact that unvarying and complete success attended every movement form the advance from Wady Halfa to the defeat and death of the Khalifa.
21 de feb. de 2024 · Fighting has been raging in Ukraine for two years since Russia's invasion, with Moscow's forces making an apparent breakthrough this week after months of virtual stalemate. Here are the latest ...
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1 de sept. de 2020 · September 1, 2020. This fall will see publication of the full, unabridged text of Churchill’s second published book, The River War, for the first time since the 1899 first edition. All subsequent editions have been based on a text one-third shorter than Churchill’s original. Until now.
