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- The River War is a remarkable work because of its author, length, content and audacity. It was based on 15 articles Churchill wrote for the Morning Post in 1898, when he was not 24 years old. Yet he was already a rising political star, having run and lost for Parliament four months earlier.
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Jul 12, 2021 · The River War is a remarkable work because of its author, length, content and audacity. It was based on 15 articles Churchill wrote for the Morning Post in 1898, when he was not 24 years old. Yet he was already a rising political star, having run and lost for Parliament four months earlier.
May 22, 2015 · Professor Paul A. Rahe explains why Churchill's "The River War" is a valuable read for contemporary students of war and peace alike.
The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (1899), by Winston Churchill, is a history of the conquest of the Sudan between 1896 and 1899 by Anglo-Egyptian forces led by Lord Kitchener. [1] He defeated the Sudanese Dervish forces, led by Khalifa Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, heir to the self-proclaimed Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad ...
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Aug 1, 2023 · By Justin D. Lyons on August 1, 2023. read. 6 min. Winston S. Churchill described The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan as “a tale of blood and war” (I 1)—and it does not disappoint. No one who reads it will fail to understand why he eventually won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The River War was plumbed containing as it does a war between British imperialism and Muslim troops. Churchill is perceptive in describing the roots of the Muslim revolt.
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Jan 8, 2024 · All of it, battle included, was grueling work in the desert, but the battle itself was not particularly dangerous, as wars go, to the British troops. It was catastrophic to the Mahdi’s army. Massive achievement, then and now Winston Churchill’s part in all this is as remarkable as the whole episode.
Feb 8, 2022 · The River War was Churchill’s finest early work, combining—in the true Churchillian manner—history and autobiography into a compulsively readable narrative, peppered with arresting phrases, powerful insights, and brilliant rhetoric. It is a military history that is about far more than the military, an imperial history that both strides ...
