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 late. The result was a national scandal that shocked the Queen and led to the fall of the British government.

Twelve years later it was the brilliant Herbert Kitchener who struck back. Achieving the impossible he built a railway across the desert to transport his troops to the final devastating confrontation at Omdurman in 1898.

Desert explorer and author Michael Asher has reconstructed this classic tale in vivid detail. Having covered every inch of the ground and examined all eyewitness reports, he brings to bear new evidence questioning several accepted aspects of the story. The result is an account that sheds new light on the most riveting tale of honour, courage, revenge and savagery of late Victorian times.

• We started tracking this book on March 17, 2011.
• This book was $9.99 when we started tracking it.
• The price of this book has changed 33 times in the past 4,788 days.
• The current price of this book is $12.99 last checked 5 months ago.
• This book is at its lowest price in the past 90 days.
• This lowest price this book has been offered at in the past year is $9.99.
• The lowest price to date was $8.76 last reached on January 4, 2012.
• This book has been $8.76 one time since we started tracking it.
• The highest price to date was $12.99 last reached on July 1, 2022.
• This book has been $12.99 2 times since we started tracking it.
• This book is currently at its highest price since we started tracking it.

• HistoryAfricaNorth Africa
• HistoryEuropeMedieval

• Publication Date: November 2, 2006
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 533 Pages
• File Size: 6,756 KB