OMDURMAN

Author: Philip Ziegler

Publisher: Dorset Press NY

Year published: 1987

Pagination: 241pp, 42 ills, 5 maps, bibliography, index

Condition: vg in chipped dw

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In 1898 General Kitchener massed his troops in Cairo and set off into the desert with an army which included the Grenadier Guards, the Rifle Brigade, the Highlanders and the Camel Corps. The army at last came in sight of Omdurman, capital of the Mahdi's successor, the Khalifa. In the battle which followed, a clash between spears and swords and the grim application of rifle and gunboat fire, came the last great cavalry charge in history. The charge by the 21st Lancers, was memorable for one of the young officers who led it, Winston Churchill.