The River War by Winston S. Churchill (1899) Historical Audio Book

The River War by Winston S. Churchill (1899) Historical Audio Book

The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (1899), by Winston Churchill, concerning his experiences as a British Army officer, during the Mahdist War (1881–99) in the Sudan.

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Notice: This Book this Audio Book are from the Nation Archive and are in the Public Domain. This is not a commercial release of the Audio Book. A cassette tape audiobook was released many years ago, however, I am not able to find a digital version, I continue to search for it. Unlike many Public Domain Libri-Vox audio books, this is read by a semi-pro and all of the books chapters & segments are read by the same reader, Mark F. Smith.


Author: Winston S. Churchill
Title: The River War: An Account of The Reconquest of The Sudan
Narrator: Mark F. Smith
Genre: Non-Fiction, History, Military History, 19th Century Warfare
Language: English


The River War was first published 1899
01 The Rebellion of the Mahdi, Part 1 00:42:19
02 The Rebellion of the Mahdi, Part 2 00:42:49
03 The Fate of the Envoy, Part 1 00:40:26
04 The Fate of the Envoy, Part 2 00:42:02
05 The Dervish Empire 00:47:57
06 The Years of Preparation 00:42:38
07 The Beginning of the War 00:45:57
08 Firket 00:21:16
09 The Recovery of the Dongola Province 00:53:46
10 The Desert Railway 00:49:55
11 Abu Hamed 00:41:55
12 Berber 00:36:45
13 Reconaissance 00:30:39
14 The Battle of the Atbara 00:29:18
15 The Grand Advance 00:29:20
16 The Operations of the First of September 00:27:35
17 The Battle of Omdurman, Part 1 00:31:58
18 The Battle of Omdurman, Part 2 00:45:03
19 The Fall of the City 00:21:47
20 The Fashoda Incident 00:33:51
21 On the Blue Nile 00:44:23
22 The End of the Khalifa 00:42:20
23 Appendix 00:10:00


Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
Winston Churchill was a prolific writer. Churchill received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his numerous published works, especially his six-volume work The Second World War.

The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (1899), by Winston Churchill, concerning his experiences as a British Army officer, during the Mahdist War (1881–99) in the Sudan.

The River War is a history of the British imperial involvement in the Sudan, and the Mahdi War between the British forces, led by Lord Kitchener, and the Dervish forces, led by Khalifa Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, "The Mahdi”, heir to the self-proclaimed Mahdi Muhammad Ahmad who had embarked on a campaign to conquer Egypt, to drive out the Ottomans.

The River War was Churchill's second published book after The Story of the Malakand Field Force, and originally filled two volumes with over 1000 pages in 1899. The River War was subsequently abridged to one volume in 1902.

When the self-proclaimed Mahdi (“Guided One”) gathered Islamic forces and kicked the Anglo-Egyptians out of the Sudan, he unleashed a backlash. With the image of the heroic General Charles Gordon dying at Khartoum, the British public was ready to support a war to reclaim the lost territories. And when the political time was right, a British-Egyptian-Sudanese expedition led by the redoubtable Herbert Kitchener set out to do just that.

The river involved was the Nile. For millennia, its annual flood has made habitable a slender strip, though hundreds of miles of deserts, between its tributaries and its delta. Through this desolate region, man and beast struggled to supply the bare essentials of life. Though this same region, the expedition had to find and defeat an enemy several times larger than itself.

The young Churchill was hot to gain war experience to aid his career, and so he wangled a transfer to the 21st Lancers and participated in the last successful cavalry charge the world ever saw, in the climactic battle of Omdurman. He also had a position as war correspondent for the Morning Post, and on his return to England he used his notes to compose this book.


Hard Cover Book Details: For Refrence Only (Hard Cover Book Not Included)
The River War Hardcover – June 25, 2005
by Winston S. Churchill (Author)
Hardcover: 300 pages
Publisher: Wildside Press (June 25, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1557423296
ISBN-13: 978-1557423290

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