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With Kitchener to Khartum — G.W. Steevens
With Kitchener to Khartum — G.W. Steevens
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G.W. Steevens accompanied Kitchener's campaign to recapture Sudan as a brilliant war correspondent. His vivid dispatches bring to life the great desert marches and the Battle of Omdurman.
Author: G.W. Steevens
Genre: Biography
Excerpt
To walk round Wady Halfa is to read the whole romance of the Sudan. This is the look-out whence Egypt has strained her vision up-Nile to the vast, silent, torrid, murderous desert land, which has been in turn her neighbour, her victim, all but her undoing and is now to be her triumph again. On us English, too, the Sudan has played its fatal witchery, and half the tale of Halfa is our own as well as Egypt’s. On its buildings and up and down its sandy, windy streets we may trace all the stages of the first conquest, the loss, the bitter failures to recover, the slow recommencement, the presage of final victory.
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