Dervish: Rise and Fall of an African Empire

Philip Warner

ISBN 10: 0356045706 / ISBN 13: 9780356045702

Published by Macdoald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, London, 1973

About this Item

Dust jacket complete except price clipped. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. No ownership marks. Plates. 256 pages clean and tight. Using first hand accounts and diaries of participants, this work describes the growth of the Mahdist movement and the devotion and discipline of the Dervish troops. Set against them, with stoic endurance, were British Egyptian and Sudanese soldiers. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dervish: Rise and Fall of an African Empire
• Publisher: Macdoald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0356045706
• ISBN 13: 9780356045702
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Very Good Hardcover MacDonald:, 1973. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 235 pages, illustrated in b&w. "This is the vivid and colorful story of one of the more remarkable episodes in the "High Empire" period of British history. The Dervish Empire outlanded the Mahdi by thirteen years. It ended in the battle of Omdurman and Kitchener's reconquest of the Sudan." VERY GOOD HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD- DUST JACKET. Dust jacket protected with a clear plastic acid-free jacket..

About the Author

Philip Warner (1914-2000) enlisted in the Royal Corps of Signals after graduating from St Catharine's, Cambridge in 1939. He fought in Malaya and spent 1,100 days 'as a guest of the Emperor' in Changi and on the Railway of Death, an experience he never discussed. He was a legendary figure to generations of cadets during his thirty years as a Senior Lecturer at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Yet he will arguably be best remembered for his contribution of more than 2,000 obituaries of prominent army figures to The Daily Telegraph. In addition he wrote fifty-four books on all aspects of military history, ranging from castles and battlefields in Britain, to biographies of prominent military figures (such as Kitchener: The Man Behind the Legend; Field Marshall Earl Haig; Horrocks: The General who Led from the Front and Auchinleck: The Lonely Soldier) to major histories of the S.A.S., the Special Boat Services and the Royal Corps of Signals."