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Macmillan, 1932. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-03-01. Paperback. Good.

The Macmillan Co., 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Photographs. With an original introduction by Winston Churchill. Original red gilt cloth. Some darkening to spine title, else a very good, tight, unmarked copy.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007-03-01. Paperback. Used:Good.

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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1932. 317 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with occasional black and white plates throughout. Page edges are lightly darkened. Bound in red cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Faded and worn around the edges and on the spine. Boards are scuffed and smudged. 1ST US EDITION. VG/- -. 1st US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2008-06-13. Hardcover. Used:Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. paperback. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

Kessinger Publishing, LLC. hardcover. New. 5x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

London & New York: Putnam, 1931 . First edition. Cloth. Near Fine. 9" by 6.5". Not Stated. The first English language edition of Richard A. Bermann's account of the Mahdist insurrection led by Mohammed Ahmed. The first English language edition of this work, published in the same year as the original German.Illustrated with a frontispiece and sixteen plates. Collated, complete.With an introduction from Winston Churchill, who participated in the defeat of Mahdist forces at battle of Omdurman in 1898. Churchill wrote his second book, 'The River War', about this campaign.This work details the theocracy that the messianic Islamic leader Mohammed Ahmed led in central and northern Sudan in the final decades of the nineteenth century.With a tipped in leaf following the title page explaining that to avoid causing offence, 'the publishers desire to state that the claim of the Dervish Mohammed Ahmed to the sublime title of "The Mahdi of Allah" is not recognised by the author of this book'.From the… Read More

London/New York: Putnam, 1931. . First edition, 8vo., pp.xiv,318, cloth, gilt, b/w frontispiece, 14 further b/w plates and 2 b/w maps; foxing to fore-edges, some foxing throughout, a very good copy, in good unclipped dust-jacket, which has small closed tears and light wear to edges, as well as loss to head of spine.

New York Ny: The Macmillan Company, 1932. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Xiv, 317 Pp. Red Cloth, Gilt. First American Edition, March 1932. Worn, Spine Cloth Faded, Gilt Present But Weak, Endpapers Darkened. Ownership Signature Of Prominent U. S. Diplomat John Habib. The U. S. Failure To Develop Any Identifiable North African Policy Is Partly Explained By Churchill's Introduction, Which Outlines The Close Official Links (1932) Of The Mahdi's Descendants With British Interests Despite Their Violent Conflicts In The Mahdi's Lifetime- The U. S. Considered British North Africa To Be A Wholly British Issue, And Never Re-Adjusted As The British Withdrew Or Were Driven Out; Also, Partly, By Similar French Predominance In Western North Africa, To Which The Us Has Never Developed Any Identifiable Policy As They Also Withdrew Or Were Driven Out. Of Course, Nothing Is Ever Our Fault, And Nothing Is Ever Our Responsibility Unless It Is An Achievement. It Is Not That… Read More

London: Putnam, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. This jacketed British first edition is a noteworthy association and presentation copy, bearing the compliments slip of the man whom the author, translator, and publishers acknowledge immediately following the title page, General Sir Reginald Wingate. WingateÂ’s 5 x 2.5 inch compliments slip is laid in at the title page and printed in two lines: “WITH THE COMPLIMENTS OF | GENERAL SIR REGINALD WINGATE.” Wingate (1861-1953, first baronet), was a British army officer and colonial governor who spent almost his entire professional career in Egypt and Sudan. It was the Mahdist insurrection led by Mohammed Ahmed that fundamentally shaped WingateÂ’s career. A messianic Islamic leader in central and northern Sudan in the final decades of the 19th century, Mohammed Ahmed found fertile political ground in the inhabitantsÂ’ resentment engendered by the corruption of and oppression by Egyptian rulers who had long dominated the region. Mahdists occupied most of… Read More