Bennet Burleigh, war correspondent for the Daily Telegraph, accompanied Kitchener’s expedition to reconquer the Sudan and witnessed the Battle of Omdurman in September 1898 at first hand. His account of the campaign — from the advance up the Nile through the dramatic final battle and the recapture of Khartoum — is one of the most vivid contemporary records of the operation.
The expedition avenged the death of General Gordon in 1885 and represented a major assertion of British power in north-east Africa. Download the free EPUB for a gripping eyewitness narrative of one of the last great set-piece battles of the Victorian army.