A Good Dusting: A Centenary Review Of The Sudan Campaigns 1883-1899
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Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In the scorching deserts of northeastern Africa, a forgotten chapter of British imperial history played out in blood and sand — A Good Dusting presents a meticulous centenary account of the Sudan campaigns of 1883–1899, chronicling the brutal clash between Anglo-Egyptian forces and the Mahdist armies that would ultimately reshape the fate of a continent. Henry Keown-Boyd reconstructs the arc of these sixteen turbulent years with authoritative precision, from the catastrophic fall of Khartoum and the death of General Gordon in 1885, through Kitchener's relentless reconquest culminating in the decisive Battle of Omdurman in 1899. Keown-Boyd writes with the confidence of a seasoned military historian, balancing strategic analysis with vivid human detail to illuminate both the grand sweep of imperial ambition and the grim realities of desert warfare. The work stands as a compelling testament to an era when the British Empire staked its prestige on some of the most unforgiving terrain on earth, and raises enduring questions about the cost — human, political, and moral — of conquest. Readers drawn to the pageantry and tragedy of Victorian military history will find this centenary review an indispensable and absorbing account that leaves one wondering whether glory and catastrophe were ever truly separable in the age of empire.
Author: Henry Keown-Boyd
Format: Hardback
Published: 1986, Guild Publishing London
Genre: Military history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
In the scorching deserts of northeastern Africa, a forgotten chapter of British imperial history played out in blood and sand — A Good Dusting presents a meticulous centenary account of the Sudan campaigns of 1883–1899, chronicling the brutal clash between Anglo-Egyptian forces and the Mahdist armies that would ultimately reshape the fate of a continent. Henry Keown-Boyd reconstructs the arc of these sixteen turbulent years with authoritative precision, from the catastrophic fall of Khartoum and the death of General Gordon in 1885, through Kitchener's relentless reconquest culminating in the decisive Battle of Omdurman in 1899. Keown-Boyd writes with the confidence of a seasoned military historian, balancing strategic analysis with vivid human detail to illuminate both the grand sweep of imperial ambition and the grim realities of desert warfare. The work stands as a compelling testament to an era when the British Empire staked its prestige on some of the most unforgiving terrain on earth, and raises enduring questions about the cost — human, political, and moral — of conquest. Readers drawn to the pageantry and tragedy of Victorian military history will find this centenary review an indispensable and absorbing account that leaves one wondering whether glory and catastrophe were ever truly separable in the age of empire.