Author: Nigel Seed
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781983703799
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
From the filthy back streets of Dublin to the deserts of the Sudan to fight and die for the British Empire.Found guilty of stealing bread to feed his starving family, Michael McGuire is offered the "Queen's Hard Bargain", go to prison or join the Army. He chooses the Army and, after training in Dublin Castle, his life is changed forever as he is selected to join the 'Gordon Relief Expedition' that is being sent south of Egypt to Khartoum, in the Sudan.
No Road to Khartoum
Author: Nigel Seed
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781983703799
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
From the filthy back streets of Dublin to the deserts of the Sudan to fight and die for the British Empire.Found guilty of stealing bread to feed his starving family, Michael McGuire is offered the "Queen's Hard Bargain", go to prison or join the Army. He chooses the Army and, after training in Dublin Castle, his life is changed forever as he is selected to join the 'Gordon Relief Expedition' that is being sent south of Egypt to Khartoum, in the Sudan.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781983703799
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
From the filthy back streets of Dublin to the deserts of the Sudan to fight and die for the British Empire.Found guilty of stealing bread to feed his starving family, Michael McGuire is offered the "Queen's Hard Bargain", go to prison or join the Army. He chooses the Army and, after training in Dublin Castle, his life is changed forever as he is selected to join the 'Gordon Relief Expedition' that is being sent south of Egypt to Khartoum, in the Sudan.
The Road to Khartoum
Author: Charles Chenevix Trench
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colonial administrators
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colonial administrators
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The Book of Khartoum
Author: Ali al-Makk
Publisher: Comma Press
ISBN: 1905583729
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Khartoum, according to one theory, takes its name from the Beja word hartooma, meaning meeting place . Geographically, culturally and historically, the Sudanese capital is certainly that: a meeting place of the Blue and White Niles, a confluence of Arabic and African histories, and a destination point for countless refugees displaced by Sudan s long, troubled history of forced migration. In the pages of this book the first major anthology of Sudanese stories to be translated into English the city also stands as a meeting place for ideas: where the promise and glamour of the big city meets its tough social realities; where traces of a colonial past are still visible in day-to-day life; where the dreams of a young boy, playing in his fathers shop, act out a future that may one day be his. Diverse literary styles also come together here: the political satire of Ahmed al-Malik; the surrealist poetics of Bushra al-Fadil; the social realism of the first postcolonial authors; and the lyrical abstraction of the new Iksir generation. As with any great city, it is from these complex tensions that the best stories begin. "An exciting, long-awaited collection showcasing some of Sudan's finest writers. There is urgency behind the deceptively languorous voices and a piercing vitality to the shorter forms. These writers lay claim over the contradictions and fusions of the capital city - Nile and drought, urbanization and village ties, what is African and what is Arab." - Leila Aboulela
Publisher: Comma Press
ISBN: 1905583729
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 93
Book Description
Khartoum, according to one theory, takes its name from the Beja word hartooma, meaning meeting place . Geographically, culturally and historically, the Sudanese capital is certainly that: a meeting place of the Blue and White Niles, a confluence of Arabic and African histories, and a destination point for countless refugees displaced by Sudan s long, troubled history of forced migration. In the pages of this book the first major anthology of Sudanese stories to be translated into English the city also stands as a meeting place for ideas: where the promise and glamour of the big city meets its tough social realities; where traces of a colonial past are still visible in day-to-day life; where the dreams of a young boy, playing in his fathers shop, act out a future that may one day be his. Diverse literary styles also come together here: the political satire of Ahmed al-Malik; the surrealist poetics of Bushra al-Fadil; the social realism of the first postcolonial authors; and the lyrical abstraction of the new Iksir generation. As with any great city, it is from these complex tensions that the best stories begin. "An exciting, long-awaited collection showcasing some of Sudan's finest writers. There is urgency behind the deceptively languorous voices and a piercing vitality to the shorter forms. These writers lay claim over the contradictions and fusions of the capital city - Nile and drought, urbanization and village ties, what is African and what is Arab." - Leila Aboulela
Sudan Almanac
Author:
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Category : Sudan
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Sudan
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Sudan
Author: Richard Cockett
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300215312
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Introduction to the Second Edition and Chapter Eight copyright A2016 Richard Cockett.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300215312
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Introduction to the Second Edition and Chapter Eight copyright A2016 Richard Cockett.
Victoria's Generals
Author: Steven J. Corvi
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1844688364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The senior British generals of the Victorian era - men like Wolseley, Roberts, Gordon and Kitchener - were heroes of their time. As soldiers, administrators and battlefield commanders they represented the empire at the height of its power. But they were a disparate, sometimes fractious group of men. They exhibited many of the failings as well as the strengths of the British army of the late nineteenth-century. And now, when the Victorian period is being looked at more critically than before, the moment is right to reassess them as individuals and as soldiers. This balanced and perceptive study of these eminent military men gives a fascinating insight into their careers, into the British army of their day and into a now-remote period when Britain was a world power.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1844688364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The senior British generals of the Victorian era - men like Wolseley, Roberts, Gordon and Kitchener - were heroes of their time. As soldiers, administrators and battlefield commanders they represented the empire at the height of its power. But they were a disparate, sometimes fractious group of men. They exhibited many of the failings as well as the strengths of the British army of the late nineteenth-century. And now, when the Victorian period is being looked at more critically than before, the moment is right to reassess them as individuals and as soldiers. This balanced and perceptive study of these eminent military men gives a fascinating insight into their careers, into the British army of their day and into a now-remote period when Britain was a world power.
Too late!
Author: Too
Publisher:
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A criticism of the British Government's handling of the Mahdi's revolt, and a defence of Gordon's actions.
Publisher:
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A criticism of the British Government's handling of the Mahdi's revolt, and a defence of Gordon's actions.
Sudan, a Country Study
Author: Harold D. Nelson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sudan
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
General study of Sudan - covers history, demographic aspects and geographical aspects, ethnic groups, social structure, religious practice, education, health, the economy (agricultural sector, industrial sector, infrastructure, trade), government, politics, international relations, defence, military service, etc. Bibliography, glossary, maps, organigram, photographs, statistical tables.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sudan
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
General study of Sudan - covers history, demographic aspects and geographical aspects, ethnic groups, social structure, religious practice, education, health, the economy (agricultural sector, industrial sector, infrastructure, trade), government, politics, international relations, defence, military service, etc. Bibliography, glossary, maps, organigram, photographs, statistical tables.
Following the Danforth Report
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Code of Federal Regulations
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 1314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative law
Languages : en
Pages : 1314
Book Description