The River War Volume 2: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan by Winston Churchill

The River War Volume 2: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan by Winston Churchill

The complete and unabridged First Edition of Winston Churchill's enthralling history of the 1896-1899 reconquest of the Sudan by Lord Alfred Kitchener, which saw the destruction of the Dervish Empire, those fanatical followers of the "Mahdi"- the Islamist leader responsible for the 1885 siege of Khartoum and death of the famous British General Charles Gordon.

Widely regarded as the most authoritative account of the Sudan War-which the author dubbed the River War, on account of the importance of the Nile River in the region-this work was originally published in two volumes. This was later condensed down to a single volume, a work which cut out swathes of Churchill's highly relevant observations and commentary.

The River War Volume II is the second part of a new edition of the original two volume set which contains the complete and unabridged text of the original First Edition.