Gordon at Khartoum, the Charge of the 21st Lancers at Omdurman and other famous episodes of British military history took place against the backdrop of the Mahdist state in the Sudan. For nearly 20 years the Dervishes (or "Ansar" as they preferred to be called) and their visionary Muslim empire fought the European powers to a standstill.
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About the Author:
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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- PublisherWordsworth Editions
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1840222468
- ISBN 13 9781840222463
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages235
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