Winston Churchill wrote five books before he was elected to Parliament at the age of twenty-five. The most impressive of these books, The River War tells the story of Britain’s arduous and risky campaign to reconquer the Sudan at the end of the nineteenth century.More than half a century of subjection to Egypt had ended a decade earlier when Sudanese Dervishes rebelled against foreign rule …

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