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CHURCHILL, Winston S.
The River War; an Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan.
First edition, first impression, second state - minor typographic error corrected on p459 of volume II - of Churchill's second book, preceded only by The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898), "2000 copies published on 6 November 1899" (Woods). It includes, of course, his account of the charge of the 21st Lancers, to whom he was attached, at Omdurman on 2 September 1898, described by The Dictionary of National Biography as "that last cavalry charge of the dying century". DNB also considers The River War a "superb" history; whilst Churchill himself more graphically called it "a tale of blood and war".
2 volumes, octavo. Original dark blue cloth, titles and pictorial decoration gilt to spines and upper boards, facsimile gilt signature and block of one of Kitchener's Nile gunboats to the upper board, and of the Mahdi's tomb to the spine, black surface paper endpapers. With 25 illustrations, 16 maps and plans in Volume I and 33 illustrations 18 maps and plans in Volume II by Angus McNeil, Seaforth Highlanders. Very slightly rubbed, corners a touch bumped, head and tail of the spine mildly crumpled, some foxing as usual, but a very good copy indeed, the hinges entirely uncracked.
