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Apr 5, 2021 · Augustine’s Press, in collaboration with the International Churchill Society, brings back to print in two handsome volumes The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan unabridged, for the first time since 1902. Every chapter and appendix from the first edition has been restored.
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Sep 14, 2022 · The River War Volume 2: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan [Churchill, Winston Spencer] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers.
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Winston S. Churchill. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902. Hardcover. This is the first one-volume edition of Churchill's second book, The River War, originally published as a two-volume edition in 1899.
The text is arresting, insightful, powerfully descriptive, and of enduring relevance. As a young officer in a colonial British army, Churchill is unusually sympathetic to the Mahdist forces and critical of the British army. This work offers us the candid perspective of the future great man of the 20th century from the distinctly 19th century ...
- The River War: A Singular Achievement
- The First Volume
- The Second Volume
- Churchill’s Brilliant Writing
- Perspective on Kitchener
- The New Edition of The River War
- The Long Run of The Abridged Edition
- The Editor’s Methodology
- Important New Content
- Production Quality
Winston Churchill remains strikingly well-known for an individual dead almost sixty years. Moreover, he is referred to by world leaders and commentators in the press almost every week. Relatively less known are his early histories and memoirs. The second of these was The River War, published in two volumes in 1899 and as a heavily edited one-volume...
Churchill explains in his very first sentence that the story is “a tale of blood and war.” It is also a tale of the great river: “…Soudan is joined to Egypt by the Nile, as a diver is connected with the surface by his air-pipe. Without it there is only suffocation…. [The Nile] is the cause of the war. It is the means by which we fight; the end at w...
Volume 2 describes the final preparations leading to the Battle of Omdurman, the battle itself, its aftermath and predictions for the future. Now Churchill is present for the principal military actions. He writes more in the first person and promises that, “if the account become more lively, it shall not be less exact.” And he asks the reader to mo...
Churchill’s recounting is militarily expert, thoughtful, colourful, detailed and honest. The writing is brilliant, and that skill alone makes this new River Warworth reading. Consider some of the following passages, mature yet coming from the mind of a 24-year old: Fanaticism is not a cause of war. It is the means which helps savage people to fight...
In addition to Churchill’s powerful, enviable, descriptive writing, we read his honest, knowledgeable, professional, often critical but ultimately fair impressions of Lord Kitchener and Mohammedanism (the latter subject having garnered considerable attention in social media lately). It is frequently clear that Churchill disliked, even disrespected,...
Until now, The River War had not been reprinted in its original form for 120 years. Churchill himself spent an entire year researching and writing the work. Imagine then that the new edition is the product of 31 yearsof extraordinary, thorough, comprehensive, intense, scholarly research by Professor James Muller of the University of Alaska. The tex...
Soon after the original publication, negotiations began for a shorter, less expensive River War. Churchill in fact favoured a cheaper version, but he wished to retain two volumes, reducing “to one at some future date.” His agent, Alexander Pollock Watt, thought a single-volume cheaper edition would make more sense. But publisher Charles Longman ins...
Professor Muller has restored allthe missing material in the new edition, so that readers can enjoy the full story of the 1885-98 Anglo-Egyptian campaign and the brilliance of Churchill’s writing. In order to enable readers to appreciate the distinctions between the original and abridged Longmans editions, he has used different colour type: black f...
The new edition restores all of the original colour maps and 50 illustrations by Angus McNeill in the first edition. It also provides 25 other illustrations Professor Muller unearthed in McNeill’s “1898 Notebook.” Added as well are valuable, informative period photographs from the Durham University Library’s Sudan Archive. There are 344 pages of ne...
James Muller’s challenges in integrating the 1899 and 1902 texts were immense. Moreover, he had to do this in a way that would not be obtrusive. Hence his successful choice of two sedate, but distinctive, colours to distinguish them. As mentioned, he has noted every singlechange between the two editions, whether as small as a point or the insertion...
The River War, 2 Volumes Hardcover – January 1, 1899. by Winston S. Churchill (Author), Profuse Maps and Illustrations (Illustrator) 4.1 40 ratings.
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The River War was Churchill's second published book after The Story of the Malakand Field Force, and originally filled two volumes with over 1,000 pages in 1899. The River War was subsequently abridged to one volume in 1902. Background. Aware that there was a war in Sudan, Churchill was determined to be part of it.
