The River War by Winston S. Churchill, History

by Winston S. Churchill

Overview

Here Sir Winston S. Churchill -- the same man who would go on to lead the free world through its darkest hours during the second world war -- tells the tale of the Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of the Sudan. It isn't just an account of the battles and the politics; it's the story of the destiny of the people of the region: Churchill with his powerful insight tells how the war changed the fates of England, Egypt, and the Arabian peoples in northeast Africa. In vivid style the book describes the background to the war, the relationship of the Upper Nile to Egypt, the murder of General Charles George Gordon in the siege at Khartoum, the political reaction in England, and Kitchener's elaborate preparations for the war. While in the Sudan, Churchill participated in the Battle of Omdurman. Churchill comments at length on the mechanisation of war with use of the telegraph, railroad, and a new generation of weaponry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781598184259
Publisher:	Alan Rodgers Books
Publication date:	06/01/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	292
Sales rank:	778,518
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 - 1965) was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a non-academic historian, a writer (as Winston S. Churchill) and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his overall, lifetime body of work. In 1963, he was the first of only eight people to be made an honorary citizen of the United States. In addition to his careers of soldier and politician, he was a prolific writer under the pen name "Winston S. Churchill". After being commissioned into the 4th Queen's Own Hussars in 1895, Churchill gained permission to observe the Cuban War of Independence and sent war reports to The Daily Graphic. He continued his war journalism in British India, at the Siege of Malakand, then in the Sudan during the Mahdist War and in southern Africa during the Second Boer War.

Table of Contents

The Rebellion of the Mahdi
The Fate of the Envoy
The Dervish Empire
The Years of Preparation
The Beginning of the War
Firket
The Recovery of the Dongola Province
The Desert Railway
Abu Hamed
Berber
Reconnaissance
The Battle of the Atbara
The Grand Advance
The Operations of the First of September
The Battle of Omdurman
The Fall of the City
ÒThe Fashoda IncidentÓ
On the Blue Nile
The End of the Khalifa
Appendices A and B
Index