ISBN: 1857765370

[SR: 16734579], Hardcover, [EAN: 9781857765373], Book Guild Ltd, Book Guild Ltd, Book, [PU: Book Guild Ltd], Book Guild Ltd, The stories about the British in the Sudan are well known and … Mehr…

[SR: 16734579], Hardcover, [EAN: 9781857765373], Book Guild Ltd, Book Guild Ltd, Book, [PU: Book Guild Ltd], Book Guild Ltd, The stories about the British in the Sudan are well known and the names of Gordon and Kitchener, the Mahdi and the Dervishes promise heroic tales. The Unknown Frenchman carries the account further and into unfamiliar but equally exciting territory. After his victory at the battle of Omdurman in October 1898 General Kitchener opened sealed orders which instructed him to proceed south, some 500 miles down the Nile, where it was reported that some Europeans had set up camp at a godforsaken spot within the British zone of influence. That spot was called Fashoda. And the unknown Frenchman who confronted Kitchener was Captain Marchand, an officier in the French marines, who with a dozen fellow officiers had set up camp a few months previously. Their epic journey across Africa from the mouth of the Congo river, across the watershed between the Congo and the Nile,and the awful swamp - the Sudd - lasted more than two years. This extraordinary story, culminating in the confrontation at Fashoda, which might have led to war, is told against the background of the European scramble for African colonies., 300961, Travelers & Explorers, 2, Biographies & Memoirs, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 5011, Military, 3568213011, Afghan War, 5012, Aviation, 1043892, Canada, 5015, Intelligence & Espionage, 387040011, Iraq War, 5016, Korean War, 16233491, Life & Institutions, 5017, Napoleonic Wars, 5018, Naval, 5019, Pictorials, 16244451, Prisoners of War, 16244121, Regiments, 5020, Strategy, 5021, Uniforms, 5022, United States, 13922587011, Vehicles, 5025, Vietnam War, 1043894, War of 1812, 5026, Weapons & Warfare, 5030, World War I, 5031, World War II, 9, History, 1000, Subjects, 283155, Books, 684270011, Military, 468230, History, 468206, Humanities, 465600, New, Used & Rental Textbooks, 2349030011, Specialty Boutique, 283155, Books<

2001, ISBN: 1857765370

[EAN: 9781857765373], Used, very good, [PU: Book Guild Ltd], History|Africa, History|Middle East|Egypt, History|Military|General, Hardcover in unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, both very g… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781857765373], Used, very good, [PU: Book Guild Ltd], History|Africa, History|Middle East|Egypt, History|Military|General, Hardcover in unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, both very good. Minor scuff to wrapper at head of spine; no annotation or inscriptions. Available for immediate dispatch from the UK.<

2001, ISBN: 9781857765373

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