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Khartoum: The Ultimate Imperial Adventure

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The British campaign within the Sudan in Queen Victoria’s reign is an epic tale of adventure more thrilling than any fiction. The story begins with the massacre of the 11,000 strong Hicks Pasha column in 1883. Sent to evacuate the country, British hero General Gordon used to be surrounded and murdered in Khartoum by an army of dervishes led by the Mahdi. The relief mission arrived 2 days too late. The result used to be a national scandal that shocked the Queen and led to the fall of the British government. Twelve years later it used to be the brilliant Herbert Kitchener who struck back. Achieving the not possible he built a railway around the desert to move his troops to the final devastating war of words at Omdurman in 1898. Desert explorer and writer Michael Asher has reconstructed this classic tale in vivid detail. Having covered each inch of the ground and examined all eyewitness reports, he brings to bear new evidence questioning a few accepted aspects of the story. The result is an account that sheds new light at the most riveting tale of honour, courage, revenge and savagery of late Victorian times.

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