In the autumn of 1884, besieged in Khartoum by the Mahdi’s army, Charles Gordon kept a journal that was sent downriver by steamer. Edited by A. Egmont Hake in 1885, it records food and ammunition, Arab attacks, the mood of the town, and Gordon’s caustic opinions of the government and the slow relief expedition.
One of the most extraordinary documents of the Victorian empire: a famous soldier’s voice from inside a besieged city. Download the free EPUB.