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  • BEYOND THE REACH OF EMPIRE
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    BEYOND THE REACH OF EMPIRE
    MIKE SNOOK
    In the early 1880s the Mahdi unleashed a spectacularly successful jihadist uprising against Egyptian colonial rule in the Sudan. Early in1884 Cairo bowed to British pressure to withdraw. Beyond the Reach of Empire describes how Major General Charles Gordon was despatched to evacuate Khartoum and turn the Sudan over to self-rule. It goes on to explain how and why the mission bac...

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  • LIKE WOLVES ON THE FOLD
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    LIKE WOLVES ON THE FOLD
    MIKE SNOOK
    A detailed chronicle of a significant opening battle in the Anglo-Zulu War: "The Zulu attack on Rorke's Drift thrillingly retold" (Richard Holmes). On January 22nd, 1879, the British Army in South Africa was swept aside by the seemingly unstoppable Zulu warriors at the Battle of Isandlwana. Nearby, at a remote outpost on the Buffalo River, a single company of the 24th Regiment ...

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  • HOW CAN MAN DIE BETTER
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    HOW CAN MAN DIE BETTER
    MIKE SNOOK
    This chronicle of the first battle in the Anglo-Zulu War is "the most powerful and moving modern account of the great Zulu epic that I have ever read" (Richard Holmes, historian and author of The Age of Wonder ). On January 22, 1879, a massive Zulu host attacked the British Army's 24th Regiment in its encampment at the foot of the mountain of Isandlwana. It was the first major ...

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  • INTO THE JAWS OF DEATH
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    INTO THE JAWS OF DEATH
    MIKE SNOOK
    A study of British military defeats and disasters in the late nineteenth century: "An enthralling look at the Victorian army in adversity." — BBC History Magazine   Between the Crimean War and the dawn of the twentieth century, the British Army was almost continuously engaged in one corner of the globe or another, in military operations famously characterized by Kipling as the ...

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