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The river war : an historical account of the reconquest of the Soudan

In The River War, Winston Churchill recounts the operations directed by Lord Kitchener of Khartoum on the Upper Nile from 1896 to 1899 that led to England's reconquest of the Egyptian Sudan. Churchill was present at the decisive battle of Omdurman, and he wrote this book while he was still a young cavalry officer

Print Book, English, 1899
Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1899