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Philip Warner (1914-2000) enlisted in the Royal Corps of Signals after graduating from St Catharine's, Cambridge in 1939. He fought in Malaya and spent 1,100 days 'as a guest of the Emperor' in Changi and on the Railway of Death, an experience he never discussed. He was a legendary figure to generations of cadets during his thirty years as a Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Yet he will arguably be best remembered for his contribution of more than 2,000 obituaries of prominent army figures to The Daily Telegraph. In addition he wrote fifty-four books on all aspects of military history, ranging from castles and battlefields in Britain, to biographies of prominent military figures (such as Kitchener: The Man Behind the Legend; Field Marshall Earl Haig; Horrocks: The General who Led from the Front and Auchinleck: The Lonely Soldier) to major histories of the S.A.S., the Special Boat Services and the Royal Corps of Signals."
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- PublisherTaplinger
- Publication date1975
- ISBN 10 0800821688
- ISBN 13 9780800821685
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages235
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Book Description orange & brown hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. first U.S. edition. first printing ( FPu US1975 & nap ). 235p. footnotes throughout. 24 glossy b&w illustrations. 5 b&w maps. appendix. index. world history. british empire. history of egypt. history of sudan. rudolf slatin pasha. khartoum. general gordon. lord kitchener. omdurman. blue nile. white nile. mohammed ahmed ibn al~sayid abdullah (the mahdi). ~At the zenith of British colonial power, a local Holy War against the tyranny of Turkish/Egyptian overlords, led by a Sudanese religious leader called the Mahdi, spread in the 1880s to engulf a million square miles of arid desert territory. The Mahdi, whose name means one who guides, was a dynamic, charismatic leader and the fanatical zeal which he instilled in the Dervish forces that followed him eventually caused a confrontation that marked a most extraordinary episode in British political and military history. Aided by the rivalry that existed between the English and French colonial governments, the Mahdi took decisive action to stake his claim as a Messiah who would free his people from their oppressors, defeating an Egyptian force and then, in 1883, an Anglo~Egyptian force. Eventually, after a gruelling campaign, the Dervish soldiers who survived the Mahdi were overcome by a charge of the 21st Lancers which happened to include a young lieutenant named Winston Churchill. Illustrated with interesting photographs and plates, Mr. Warner's reconstruction of this conflict draws on firsthand diaries and reports to evoke the many amazing feats of courage and resourcefulness common to both sides. Seller Inventory # 6181602
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