Khartoum
The Ultimate Imperial Adventure
$32.81
- Paperback
512 pages
- Release Date
2 November 2006
Summary
The wonderful, powerful story of one of the most important and exciting campaigns in Victorian history.
The British campaign in the Sudan in Queen Victoria’s reign is an epic tale of adventure more thrilling than any fiction. The story begins with the massacre of the 11,000 strong Hicks Pasha column in 1883. Sent to evacuate the country, British hero General Gordon was surrounded and murdered in Khartoum by an army of dervishes led by the Mahdi. The relief mission arrived 2 days too l…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140258554 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140258558 |
| Author: | Michael Asher |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 512 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 2 November 2006 |
| Weight: | 355g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 33mm |
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Critics Review
“A staggering achievement. Asher has delivered a scintillating tale of a period of history that deserves to be remembered.”
“A staggering achievement. Asher has delivered a scintillating tale of a period of history that deserves to be remembered.” –Guardian
“It is hard to see how this bloody conflict could be more conclusively and convincingly told.” –Sunday Times
“This is the most complete picture of the Sudanese campaigns that has yet been published … a vigorous and engrossing narrative.” –Telegraph
About The Author
Michael Asher
Michael Asher has served in the Parachute Regiment and the SAS Regiment. The author of twenty-four books and presenter of six TV documentaries, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1996. For his writing and travels, he has been awarded the Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Medal, the Mungo Park Medal and the Ness Award. He lives in Nairobi, Kenya.
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