Prisoners of the Mahdi
Series: Norton Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: September 1, 1989
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780393305791
Subjects: World history; West Africa - History; History - Military / War; History: American; Africa - General; Middle East - Egypt; Military - General; History / Egypt; History : Africa - General; History : Military - General; 1862-1899; History; Mahdi; Sudan
First sentence: He sprang from the mud of the Nile and, although he never strayed more than 200 miles from its banks, he successfully defied the might of Great Britain, then the most powerful nation on earth, carving for himself a million square miles from the sprawling Ottoman Empire and establishing the first and only African nation ever to win independence from a foreign power by virtue of its own force of arms, courage and abilities.