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1900: Longmans, Green & Co, London. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Second edition, 1900. Bound in blue morocco leather spine & corners over blue cloth-covered boards, five raised bands to spine, red spine labels, gilt rules to covers, top edge of pages gilt, marbled endpapers; illustrated with numerous plates & maps. All maps present. Binding by Henry Sothern & Co. Very good text (some foxing) within near fine binding. Churchill was a war correspondent at the time, and his book is accurate and insightful.

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.