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The River War
Winston Churchill
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Description for The River War
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1HBS; 3JH; HBJH; HBLL; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 145 x 28. Weight in Grams: 412.
First published in 1899 and revised for the 1902 edition by its author Winston Churchill, this history of the River War in Sudan vividly chronicles the military campaign that altered the destinies of England, Egypt, and the Arabian peoples in northeast Africa.
More by accident than design, in Churchill’s view, England was drawn into the affairs of Egypt in the 1880s, for at the same historical moment that the English, under Lord Cromer, were granted virtually sovereign power to establish a sound government in Egypt and to stimulate its national economy, the Mahdi rebelled in the Egyptian suzerainty of Sudan. ... Read more
First published in 1899 and revised for the 1902 edition by its author Winston Churchill, this history of the River War in Sudan vividly chronicles the military campaign that altered the destinies of England, Egypt, and the Arabian peoples in northeast Africa.
More by accident than design, in Churchill’s view, England was drawn into the affairs of Egypt in the 1880s, for at the same historical moment that the English, under Lord Cromer, were granted virtually sovereign power to establish a sound government in Egypt and to stimulate its national economy, the Mahdi rebelled in the Egyptian suzerainty of Sudan. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781620874769
SKU
V9781620874769
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Ref
99-15
About Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was prime minister of Great Britain during World War I. Throughout his long and distinguished political career, his writing was prolific. Churchill received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953.
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