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"The British campaigns in the Sudan in the closing years of Queen Victoria's reign are a tale of adventure more thrilling than any fiction. Evoking images of broken squares, jammed Gatling guns, ferocious 'Fuzzy Wuzzies', British gunboats on the Nile, the Camel Corps and the charge of the 21st Lancers at Omdurman, the story also brings together a cast of larger-than-life characters - Gordon, Wolseley, Kitchener, Gladstone, Churchill, the Mahdi, the Khalifa Abdallahi and many others." "The story begins with the massacre of the eleven-thousand-strong Hicks Pasha column at Shaykan in 1883 - an event that sent shock waves through the Western world. Dispatched to evacuate the country, British national hero Charles 'Chinese' Gordon was surrounded in Khartoum by a vast army of dervishes commanded by the Mahdi, the Expected Guide. Gordon held out for months, hoping from day to day to be rescued, but was eventually killed and the city sacked in an orgy of murder, rape and pillage. Wolseley's relief mission, having fought its way across the desert on camels and sailed up the Nile in steamers, arrived two days too late. This caused a national scandal that shocked the Queen and led to the fall

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Author

Michael Asher

Publisher

Viking

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780140258554

Category

history

Subjects

Fiction, History, Humanities

Rating

4.28 / 5 (141 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13