Winston Churchill | The River War, 1899, blue pictorial cloth, first edition

Sir Winston Churchill

The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1899

2 volumes, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, numerous illustrations, plans and maps (20 folding), original blue pictorial cloth gilt

Churchill’s second book, in which the young war correspondent delivered a brilliant history of British involvement in the Sudan, and an account of the fierce campaign for its reconquest in which he himself participated and, in many significant ways, disapproved of.

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