Dervish
Within these pages the vivid and colourful story of a remarkable episode in the ''high empire'' period of British history. The Mahdi''s rising in the Sudan in the 1880''s, which started as a localised Holy War against the ''decadent'' Turkish/Egyprian overlords, was soon to engulf a million square miles of territory and force the hand of the British Liberal Government, whose reluctance to get invo...
Within these pages the vivid and colourful story of a remarkable episode in the ''high empire'' period of British history. The Mahdi''s rising in the Sudan in the 1880''s, which started as a localised Holy War against the ''decadent'' Turkish/Egyprian overlords, was soon to engulf a million square miles of territory and force the hand of the British Liberal Government, whose reluctance to get invo...
