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Sir Charles William Wilson
From Korti to Khartum (Illustrated)
The Diary of the Desert Column and the Last March to Khartoum, 1884–1885
Sudan, 1885. Khartoum is besieged and time is running out. Across the Bayuda Desert the British Desert Column drives towards the Nile in a desperate attempt to reach General Gordon. Among its officers is Sir Charles William Wilson, Royal Engineer, intelligence chief and, after the mortal wounding of Sir Herbert Stewart, commander in the field.
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“The record of one of the most remarkable enterprises in military history.” (The Times.) He crosses the desert with the Camel Corps, fights through Abu Klea and Abu Kru, reaches the Nile and boards Gordon’s armed steamers for the final ascent towards Khartoum. He sees the city on 28 January 1885. It has fallen two days before. From Korti to Khartum is Wilson’s first-hand record of one of the Victorian Army’s hardest and most tragic expeditionary campaigns: a narrative of intelligence, desert warfare, logistics, command and the relentless contest between distance and time.
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