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The River War

Winston Churchill

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When the self-proclaimed Mahdi gathered Islamic forces and kicked the Anglo-Egyptians out of the Sudan, he unleashed a backlash. With the image of the heroic General Charles Gordon dying at Khartoum, the British public was ready to support a war to reclaim the lost territories. And when the political time was right, a British-Egyptian-Sudanese expedition led by the redoubtable Herbert Kitchener set out to do just that.
yond all other forms costly and tyrannical—the rule of an army. Such a combination depends, not on the good faith and good will of its constituents, but on their discipline and almost mechanical obedience. Mutual fear, not mutual trust, promotes the co-operation of its individual members. History records many such dominations, ancient and modern, civilised or barbaric; and though education and culture may modify, they cannot change their predominant characteristics—a continual subordination of justice to expediency, an indifference to suffering, a disdain of ethical principles, a laxity of morals, and a complete ignorance of economics. The evil qualities of military hierarchies are always the same. The results of their rule are universally unfortunate. The degree may vary with time and place, but the political supremacy of an army always leads to the formation of a great centralised capital, to the consequent impoverishment of the provinces, to the degradation of the peaceful inhabitants through oppression and want, to the ruin of commerce, the decay of learning, and the ultimate demoralisation even of the military order through overbearing pride and sensual indulgence.

Of the military dominations which history records, the Dervish Empire was probably the worst. All others have displayed compensating virtues. A high sense of personal honour has counterbalanced a low standard of public justice. An ennobling patriotism may partly repair economic follies. The miseries of the people are often concealed by the magnificence of the army. The laxity of morals is in some degree excused by the elegance of manners. But the Dervish Empire developed no virtue except courage, a quality more admirable than rare. The poverty of the land prevented magnificence. The ignorance of its inhabitants excluded refinement. The Dervish dominion was born of war, existed by war, and fell by war. It began on the night of the sack of Khartoum. It

Alan 08/24/2022
A vivid and thrilling narrative, every bit as exciting as a grand adventure novel. Churchill was an amazing writer who brought this military history to pulse pounding life. Of course he had firsthand knowledge of the events, as he served in the 21st Lancers, which had a major role in the Battle of O
David 04/17/2019
It's quintessential Churchill. It's biased, unabashedly imperialist, and old fashioned to the point of racism... But all the same, it's vibrant, exciting, eloquent, surprisingly even handed, and viscerally memorable narration.

You won't find a better book regarding this war, nor a better window into
Stinger 08/15/2015
Churchill knows how to tell a good story, and he does so with vigor on this occasion. One lesson that can be gleamed from the conflict described in the pages of this book is the following: opposing war parties may have differing moral justification for their actions. In this tale, the Muslim uprisin

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