BEYOND THE REACH OF EMPIRE: WOLSELEY'S FAILED CAMPAIGN TO SAVE GORDON AND KHARTOUM
by Mike Snook
Published by Frontline Books. 1st. 2013
Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. In the early 1880s Muhammad Ahmed, the Mahdi, unleashed a spectacularly successful jihadist uprising against Egyptian colonial rule in the Sudan. By the spring of 1884 Cairo had bowed to British pressure to withdraw. This book describes how Major General Charles Gordon was despatched to evacuate Khartoum and turn the Sudan over to self-rule, it goes on to explain how and why the Gordon mission backfired, and then homes in on Sir Garnet Wolseley's planning and execution of the long-delayed Gordon Relief Expedition, which arrived only two days after the city had fallen and Gordon had been killed. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations & maps. xxx and 578 pages including index.
Minor score mark to base of text block else a lovely copy!
ISBN: 9781848326019
Stock no. 1830073
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (FOREIGN)
- EGYPT
- MILITARY
- SUDAN
