Description

Early Popular edition in one volume in the RARE DUSTJACKET. 22 maps, many folding, a number in colour and a number of plans. 8vo, publisher’s original tan cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, in the rare pictorial dustjacket. xiv, 384 including index. A fine, bright and very well preserved copy, the jacket with a bit of light edge wear and mellowing.

Edizione: scarce and important, in the rare dustjacket. churchill's second book, very scarce. a fascinating account of the british campaign against the forces of the madhdi, including the author's eyewitness account of the battle of omdurman and his participation in the cavalry charge there.<br> the book relates the exact military operations directed by lord kitchener on the upper nile from april 1896 to february 1899 which resulted in the reconquest of the egyptian sudan from the madhdi forces. to give background for the reader churchill also provides much information on the general history of the area, the geography and the historic connections between great britain and egypt.<br> the work is extensively researched but based on firsthand experience. it has been called a brilliant work. churchill’s epic conflict against fascism during world war ii has often overshadowed much of the work of his earlier career and writings. but conflicts such as the soudan war and the wars in india forged the politics of twentieth century england and this firsthand account by one of the world’s greatest statesmen, orators and writers is invaluable to the study of that history.