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River War
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“The River War” Returns in a Masterful and Scholarly New Edition
12
Jul
2021
5
By RONALD I. COHEN
The River War is remarkable because of its author, length, content and audacity. The author was already a rising political star, having run and lost for Parliament. At 962 pages, the book analyzed the Anglo-Egyptian reconquest of the Sudan, a conflict largely forgotten today—except for its dramatic concluding event, one of history’s last great cavalry charges, in which Churchill himself participated.