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The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (1899), by Winston Churchill, is a history of the conquest of the Sudan between 1896 and 1899 by Anglo-Egyptian forces led by Lord Kitchener. [1] He defeated the Sudanese Dervish forces, led by Khalifa Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, heir to the self-proclaimed Mahdi ...
- Winston Churchill
- 1899
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2 de abr. de 2002 · A classic account of the British reconquest of the Sudan in 1898, written by the future prime minister and Nobel laureate. The book covers the history, geography, and military operations of the campaign, as well as the political and social context of the region.
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- The New Edition of The River War
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Winston Churchill remains strikingly well-known for an individual dead almost sixty years. Moreover, he is referred to by world leaders and commentators in the press almost every week. Relatively less known are his early histories and memoirs. The second of these was The River War, published in two volumes in 1899 and as a heavily edited one-volume...
Churchill explains in his very first sentence that the story is “a tale of blood and war.” It is also a tale of the great river: “…Soudan is joined to Egypt by the Nile, as a diver is connected with the surface by his air-pipe. Without it there is only suffocation…. [The Nile] is the cause of the war. It is the means by which we fight; the end at w...
Volume 2 describes the final preparations leading to the Battle of Omdurman, the battle itself, its aftermath and predictions for the future. Now Churchill is present for the principal military actions. He writes more in the first person and promises that, “if the account become more lively, it shall not be less exact.” And he asks the reader to mo...
Churchill’s recounting is militarily expert, thoughtful, colourful, detailed and honest. The writing is brilliant, and that skill alone makes this new River Warworth reading. Consider some of the following passages, mature yet coming from the mind of a 24-year old: Fanaticism is not a cause of war. It is the means which helps savage people to fight...
In addition to Churchill’s powerful, enviable, descriptive writing, we read his honest, knowledgeable, professional, often critical but ultimately fair impressions of Lord Kitchener and Mohammedanism (the latter subject having garnered considerable attention in social media lately). It is frequently clear that Churchill disliked, even disrespected,...
Until now, The River War had not been reprinted in its original form for 120 years. Churchill himself spent an entire year researching and writing the work. Imagine then that the new edition is the product of 31 yearsof extraordinary, thorough, comprehensive, intense, scholarly research by Professor James Muller of the University of Alaska. The tex...
Soon after the original publication, negotiations began for a shorter, less expensive River War. Churchill in fact favoured a cheaper version, but he wished to retain two volumes, reducing “to one at some future date.” His agent, Alexander Pollock Watt, thought a single-volume cheaper edition would make more sense. But publisher Charles Longman ins...
Professor Muller has restored allthe missing material in the new edition, so that readers can enjoy the full story of the 1885-98 Anglo-Egyptian campaign and the brilliance of Churchill’s writing. In order to enable readers to appreciate the distinctions between the original and abridged Longmans editions, he has used different colour type: black f...
The new edition restores all of the original colour maps and 50 illustrations by Angus McNeill in the first edition. It also provides 25 other illustrations Professor Muller unearthed in McNeill’s “1898 Notebook.” Added as well are valuable, informative period photographs from the Durham University Library’s Sudan Archive. There are 344 pages of ne...
James Muller’s challenges in integrating the 1899 and 1902 texts were immense. Moreover, he had to do this in a way that would not be obtrusive. Hence his successful choice of two sedate, but distinctive, colours to distinguish them. As mentioned, he has noted every singlechange between the two editions, whether as small as a point or the insertion...
Winston Churchill wrote The River War in 1899, based on his articles and personal experience of the Anglo-Egyptian campaign in the Sudan. The book, now reissued in two volumes, is a masterful and scholarly account of the war, its causes, battles and consequences.
The River War - An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan. When the self-proclaimed Mahdi (“Guided One”) gathered Islamic forces and kicked the Anglo-Egyptians out of the Sudan, he unleashed a backlash.
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