LEADER 00000cam 2200529Ki 4500 001 ocn885208832 003 OCoLC 005 20160518074836.1 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 140804s2013 enkabcf ob 001 0 eng d 020 9781473831735|q(electronic bk.) 020 1473831733|q(electronic bk.) 035 (OCoLC)885208832 040 N$T|beng|erda|epn|cN$T|dYDXCP|dOCLCF|dOCLCQ 043 f-sj--- 049 GTKE 050 4 DT156.6|b.S66 2013eb 082 04 962.403|222 100 1 Snook, Mike. 245 10 Beyond the reach of empire :|bWolseley's failed campaign to save Gordon and Khartoum /|cColonel Mike Snook. 264 1 London :|bFrontline Books,|c2013. 264 4 |c©2013 300 1 online resource (xxx, 578 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :|billustrations, maps, portraits 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 564-567) and index. 520 "In the early 1880s Muhammad Ahmed unleashed a spectacularly successful jihadist uprising against Egyptian colonial rule in the Sudan. By the spring of 1884 Cairo had bowed to British pressure to withdraw. This book describes how Major General Charles Gordon was dispatched to evacuate Khartoum and turn the Sudan over to self-rule, goes on to explain how and why the Gordon mission backfired, and then homes in on Sir Garnet Wolseley's planning and execution of the long-delayed Gordon Relief Expedition, which arrived only two days after the city had fallen and Gordon had been killed"--Back cover. 588 0 Print version record. 600 10 Wolseley, Garnet Wolseley,|cViscount,|d1833-1913|xMilitary leadership. 600 17 Wolseley, Garnet Wolseley,|cViscount,|d1833-1913.|2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00017536 611 20 Gordon Relief Expedition|d(1884-1885) 611 27 Gordon Relief Expedition.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01409170 648 7 1800 - 1899|2fast 650 7 HISTORY|zMiddle East|zEgypt.|2bisacsh 650 7 Military leadership.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01185276 651 0 Sudan|xHistory|y1881-1899. 651 0 Sudan|xHistory, Military|y19th century. 651 7 Sudan.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01204591 655 7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 Military history.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411630 776 08 |iPrint version:|aSnook, Mike.|tBeyond the reach of empire |z9781848326019|w(OCoLC)750669256 914 ocn885208832 994 93|bGTK
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