Winston Churchill
The River War — Winston Churchill
The River War — Winston Churchill
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The great river is their only means of growth, their only channel of progress. It is by the Nile alone that their commerce can reach the outer markets, or European civilisation can penetrate the inner darkness. The 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. Aut Nilus, aut nihil!
23 chapters · approximately 14 hours 14 minutes
Winston Churchill’s eyewitness account of Kitchener’s campaign to reconquer the Sudan, culminating in the Battle of Omdurman in 1898. Written when Churchill was a young soldier and war correspondent, it remains one of the most vivid first-hand accounts of Victorian military campaigning.
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Author: Winston S. Churchill
Language: English
Subjects: Sudan, Nile Valley, military history, Battle of Omdurman
Edition: Public-domain text and public-domain LibriVox recording
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The last chapter carried the account of the war forward at express speed. The reader, who had already on the railway reached the Atbara encampment and was prepared for the final advance on Khartoum, must allow his mind to revert to a period when the Egyptian forces are distributed along the river in garrisons at Dongola, Debba, Korti, and Merawi; when the reorganisation of the conquered province has been begun; and when the Desert Railway is still stretching steadily forward towards Abu Hamed.
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