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  • In Pursuit Of The "Mad" Mullah Service And Sport In The Somali Protectorate

    by Captain Malcolm Mcneill ...
    In Pursuit Of The "Mad" Mullah: Service And Sport In The Somali Protectorate is a compelling account by an officer who served in the Somali Protectorate. The book captures the excitement and challenges of war in an unfamiliar environment, focusing on the military campaign against the "Mad" Mullah and his forces. Interwoven with the military narrative are moments of personal reflection, including ... Read more

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  • The River War (History of the War in Sudan)

    Enriched edition. Historical & Autobiographical Account of the Reconquest of Sudan

    by Winston Churchill, Kelsey Ramsey ...
    In "The River War," Winston Churchill chronicles the tumultuous events of the Sudan campaign between 1896 and 1899, blending vivid narrative with meticulous historical analysis. His literary style is characterized by a compelling prose that combines both military precision and emotional depth, offering readers insights into the complexities of imperial warfare. Churchill's firsthand account is ... Read more

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  • East Africa

    Tribal and Imperial Armies in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar, 1800 to 1900

    by Ian Heath ...
    Series series Armies of the Nineteenth Century
    Principally covering Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and Zanzibar, this volume deals with the native peoples of East Africa and the Arabs and Europeans who variously fought, explored, and raided there in the course of the 19th century. The detailed text provides the dress, arms, organisation, and tactics of the protagonists, and includes sections on the foreign explorers and the forces of the British and ... Read more

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  • The Heart of a Continent.

    A Narrative of Travels in Manchuria, Across the Gobi Desert, through the Himalayas, the Pamirs, and Chitral, 1884-1894.

    by Francis Younghusband ...
    Series series Elibron Classics
    Replica of 1896 edition by John Murray, London.
 Elibron Classics. Oversize maps are available as a free download. 
John Frederick Baddeley (July 1854 – Oxford, 16 February 1940) was a British traveller, scholar and journalist, 
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, KCSI, KCIE (31 May 1863 – 31 July 1942, Dorset was a British Army officer, explorer, and spiritual writer. He is ... Read more

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  • Marching to the Drums

    Eyewitness Accounts of War from the Kabul Massacre to the Siege of Mafeking

    Edited by Ian Knight ...
    In this gripping collection of first-hand accounts, Ian Knight presents the adventure of nineteenth-century warfare from the thrill of the cavalry charges at Balaklava and Omdurman, to the terror of battle against an overwhelming odds such as Rorke's Drift in the words of the men actually there.These eyewitness accounts provide a vivid and sometimes shocking insight into the brutal realities of ... Read more

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  • In the Heart of Africa

    by Sir Samuel White Baker ...
    The Nubian desert—The bitter well—Change of plans—An irascible dragoman—Pools of the Atbara—One secret of the Nile—At Cassala. In March, 1861, I commenced an expedition to discover the sources of the Nile, with the hope of meeting the East African expedition of Captains Speke and Grant, that had been sent by the English Government from the South via Zanzibar, for the same object. I had not the ... Read more

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  • Ismailia

    by Samuel White Sir Baker ...
    An interval of five years has elapsed since the termination of my engagement in the service of His Highness the Khedive of Egypt, “to suppress the slave-hunters of Central Africa, and to annex the countries constituting the Nile Basin, with the object of opening those savage regions to legitimate commerce and establishing a permanent government. ... Read more

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  • Through Three Campaigns: A Story of Chitral, Tirah, and Ashanti

    by G.A. Henty ...
    Our little wars attract far less attention among the people of this country than they deserve. They are frequently carried out in circumstances of the most adverse kind. Our enemies, although ignorant of military discipline are, as a rule, extremely brave; and are thoroughly capable of using the natural advantages of their country. Our men are called upon to bear enormous fatigue, and endure ... Read more

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  • Sun, Sand and Somals - Leaves from the Note-Book of a District Commissioner in British Somaliland (1921)

    by Major H. Rayne ...
    Originally published in 1921, this interesting book contains pages from the note-book of a district commissioner in British Somaliland, offering a fascinating and unique insight into the area during the British occupation. Many of these earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic ... Read more

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  • War in the Garden of Eden

    by Kermit Roosevelt ...
    It was at Taranto that we embarked for Mesopotamia. Reinforcements were sent out from England in one of two ways – either all the way round the Cape of Good Hope, or by train through France and Italy down to the desolate little seaport of Taranto, and thence by transport over to Egypt, through the Suez Canal, and on down the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf. The latter method was ... Read more

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  • Dervish

    The Rise and Fall of an African Empire

    by Philip Warner ...
    Dervish is the vivid and colourful story of one of the more remarkable episodes in the high Empire period of British history. The Mahdis rising in the Sudan in the 1880s starting as a localized Holy War against the decadent Turkish/Egyptian overlords, engulfed a million square miles of arid territory and forced the British Liberal Government to get involved after the early disasters of the Hicks ... Read more

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  • To Abyssinia, Through an Unknown Land

    by Chauncy Hugh Stigand ...
    Chauncey Hugh Stigand (1877–1919) was a British army officer, colonial administrator and big game hunter. He was killed in action while attempting to suppress a rebellion of Aliab Dinka. Theodore Roosevelt wrote that "Captain Stigand is one of the most noted of recent African big game hunters and explorers, and he is also a field naturalist of unusual powers. ... Captain Stigand has written a book ... Read more

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