Highly recommended, not only for the remarkable story itself but also the quality of its research, its presentation and readability.' — Adrian Greaves'Charlie Harford's entertaining memoirs are among...
"...a slim but thoughtful study of Winston Churchill’s relationship with the African continent." — A Blog on Winston ChurchillThis timely book fills a lacuna in the extensive literature on Churchill's...
Wolseley's Failed Campaign to Save Gordon and Khartoum
by Lieutenant Colonel Mike Snook
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781399013550
Pub Date: 2022-10-21
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Frontline Books
608 Pages
In the early 1880s Muhammad Ahmed, the self-styled Mahdi, unleashed a spectacularly successful jihadist uprising against Egyptian colonial rule in the Sudan. The Egyptian military met with a series of disasters, including the rout of major expeditions led by hired-in British colonels, William ‘Hicks Pasha’ and Valentine ‘Baker Pasha’.
The blow to British pride and confidence caused by the crushing defeat of their army in Afghanistan during the winter of 1841/2 compares in its impact to the disaster in New York on 11 September 2001. The British had replaced a popular and effective monarch with a weak one in the mistaken belief that he would keep the Russians at bay.
Britain’s war against the Zulu people of southern Africa in the late nineteenth century is one of the most famous clashes in the history of the British empire, but her earlier wars against the Xhosa, also in southern Africa, are far less well known.
Thanks to newly discovered letters and documents, A Handful of Heroes updates the history of the defense of Rorkes Drift, which will forever be one of the most celebrated British feats of arms.
In The African Wars Chris Peers provides a graphic account of several of the key campaigns fought between European powers and the native peoples of tropical and sub-tropical Africa in the late nineteenth...
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