Khartoum: The Ultimate Imperial Adventure |
| Author: Michael Asher
Publisher: Penguin Global
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 480
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 1.3
ISBN: 0140258558
Dewey Decimal Number: 967
EAN: 9780140258554
ASIN: 0140258558
Publication Date: March 28, 2008
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History repeats August 19, 2006
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
To understand the troubles that sprang from the deserts in the last decade, one might trace Osama Bin Laden's journey to Sudan between 1994 and 1998. The al-Qaeda we now know is in many ways the spiritual inheritor of the philosophy and traditions of the Mahdist uprising in the Sudan of the 1880's.
Between than and now, little seems to have changed, but the names of the actors and the colours of the uniforms.
The reader is drawn with precise detail into the era, and advanced through the stages of the campaign. The politics and heroism of both sides is shown in balance, and the collision between two very different worlds made real.
This incredibly readable book makes me think of George Santayana who commented 'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'
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