Khartoum: The Ultimate Imperial Adventure

by Michael Asher

Book Overview

The British campaign in 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 was surrounded and murdered in Khartoum by an army of dervishes led by the Mahdi. The relief mission arrived 2 days too late. The result was a national scandal that shocked the Queen and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140258558
• ISBN13: 9780140258554
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher