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Beyond the Reach of Empire: Wolseley’s Failed Campaign to Save Gordon and Khartoum

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Within the early 1880s the Mahdi unleashed a spectacularly successful jihadist uprising against Egyptian colonial rule Within the Sudan. Early in 1884 Cairo bowed to British pressure to withdraw. Beyond the Reach of Empire describes how Major General Charles Gordon was once dispatched to evacuate Khartoum and turn the Sudan over to self-rule. It goes on to give an explanation for how and why the mission backfired, after which homes in on Sir Garnet Wolseley’s planning and execution of the long-delayed Gordon Relief Expedition which arrived, consistent with popular myth, only two days after the city had fallen and Gordon had been killed.

Colonel Mike Snook’s narrative is characterized by scrupulous attention to detail, an instinctive seize of the period, and an intimate understanding of its setting. The writer argues compellingly that the Khartoum campaign was once mismanaged from the outset. The outcome is the exoneration of Colonel Sir Charles Wilson, the man cast Within the role of scapegoat, and an indictment of Wolseley’s generalship over the course of the last and most deeply incorrect campaign of his career.

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‘Mike Snook’s research and narrative mirror the scale of Victorian Britain’s herculean effort to save General Gordon. In the end despite the fact that the writer’s quest is crowned with success, not least because he brings to his story the understanding of a fighting soldier, cutting through the jingoism and bombast of earlier accounts, laying bare the reasons for the campaign’s failure.’
Mark Urban, writer of Rifles: Six Years with Wellington’s Legendary Sharpshooters

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