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Winston Churchill

The River War

Longmans, Green, and Co.

1902

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A second, new and revised edition, and the first one volume edition of The River War.

  • Winston Churchill (English).
  • Edited by Col. F. Rhodes.
  • The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan. 
  • London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1902.
  • Thick octavo.
  • 381 pages.
  • With frontispiece portrait of Kitchener of Khartoum and 22 maps and plans, of which 14 are color and 11 folding.
  • Bound in the original red cloth, stamped in gilt.


The second edition of Churchill's second book, which originally appeared in two volumes in 1899. The text has been revised and a new chapter on the Destruction of Khalifa and the denouement of the war have been added.

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Rubbing to cloth.

Minor signs of age and handling.

Language

English

Subject

Military and Naval, History, English literature and history, Illustrated

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