Sudan : the reconquest reappraised / edited by Edward M. Spiers.

Other author Spiers, Edward M.
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; Portland, OR : Frank Cass, 1998.
Descriptionxii, 269 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, facsimiles ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction: The reconquest reappraised / Edward M. Spiers. -- Lord Salisbury, the "False religion" of Islam, and the Reconquest of the Sudan / David Steele. -- Kitchener and the politics of command / Ian F.W. Beckett. -- Campaigning under Kitchener / Edward M. Spiers. -- Images and perceptions: visualising the Sudan Campaign / Peter Harrington. -- British correspondents and the Sudan Campaign of 1896-98 / Hugh Cecil -- Italy, Abyssinia and the Sudan, 1885-98 / John Gooch. -- The Kaiser's diplomacy and the reconquest of the Sudan / Roderick R. McLean. -- Omdurman, Fashoda and Franco-British relations / J.F.V. Keiger. -- The reconquest of the Sudan: an Austro-Hungarian perspective / F.R. Bridge. -- The Battle of Omdurman in the context of Sudanese history / Peter Clark. -- Appendix 1 Young Winston's Addisonian Conceit: a note on 'The war on the Nile' Letters / Keith Wilson. -- Appendix 2 'The Battlefield, 10 September 1898, facsimile of letter, signed 'A Subaltern of Horse' (Winston S. Churchill).
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [247]-256) and index.
LCCN 98015917
ISBN0714647497 (cloth)
ISBN0714643076 (pbk.)