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Three Empires on the Nile: The Victorian Jihad, 1869-1899 by Dominic Green |
A veritable compendium of two centuries at least of historical, geographical, political and personal detail which reads like a thriller and leads the reader compulsively on to an assessment of the causes of the present day's woes in the Sudan, the pan-Islamism and 'Mahdi Army' of today. This slim volume's 314 pages includes a Cast of Characters, Prologue, biographical epilogue, exhaustive notes, bibliography, Index and glossary, by a most talented and disciplined young author.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 54 November 2009 ) |
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