Books

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1902. Edited by Col. F. Rhodes. New and revised edition. With frontispiece, maps, and plans. Pp. xiv+382(last blank), photogravure frontispiece portrait (with tissue guard) of Kitchener of Khartoum, 22 maps and plans (14 coloured of which 11 are folding), appendices, index; demy 8vo; red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, the upper board with blind rule border, lower board slightly soiled, neatly underbacked, with the original spine laid on, fore-corners of boards slightly bruised; black coated endpapers, the upper free endpaper slightly glue marked, half-title page and final blank offset, a little lightly foxing and occasional faint soiling; Longmans, Green, and Co., London, 1902. Second (one volume) edition. Cohen A2.2; Woods A2(b). *With the bookplate of Australian physician and army medical officer [Sir] Frank Kingsley Norris [1893-1984] on upper pastedown and his signature, dated 1963 on verso of upper free endpaper. Churchill's second book,…

The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (1899), by Winston Churchill, is a history of the British imperial involvement in the Sudan and the campaign to reconquer the Sudan following the defeat of the revolt led by the Mahdist leader, Muhammad Ahmad.