Chain of Fire: Campaigning in Egypt and the Sudan, 1882-98
(By Peter Hart)
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For Victorian Britain, North Africa was a hot-button issue as Khedive rule, Egyptian nationalism and the rise of the Mahdi created a political pressure cooker in which Prime Minister Gladstone had no intention of becoming further involved - until his emissary Charles Gordon was besieged in Khartoum.
This was the height of aggressive European colonialism. Hardships were endured, injustices administered, hair-raising battles fought and civilians caught in the crossfire of imperial fury. And amongst the early British officers were famous figures who would later adopt starring roles in the trenches of the First World War, such as Egyptian Army sapper Captain Herbert Kitchener.
By turns brutal and sparkling, this is an unflinching look at the lives behind the North African conflicts which rocked nineteenth-century Britain.”
