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winterbadgerI know this project has gotten a lot of flak from different quarters, and to some extent I can understand why.
But I am astonished and grateful for the immense amount of (fairly obscure) material it contains. While I'm on this eastern Sudan 1884 kick, I've been delving, and I've come up with some gems.
One is Bennett Burleigh's "Desert Warfare" and his "Kharthoum Campaign, 1898". BB was one of the principal war correspondents of the period, and he was "embedded" (to use modern concepts) with both the Suakin and both the later Khartoum expeditions. Also available is "Days and Nights of Service" by E. A. De Cosson, one of Sir Gerald Graham's staff officers on the Suakin Expedition. Also "Under Crescent and Star", by Andrew Haggard, a British officer in Egpytian service who was stationed at Suakin. "The River Column" by Maj Gen Brackenbury, who commanded part of the relief force sent to rescue Gordon. "The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan" and "With the Camel Corps Up the Nile" by Lord Edward Gleichen. "With the Indian contingent in Egypt: 1882", a war correspondent's memoir of the Arabi Revolt. "The War in Egypt", the Times' account of the same. The US Navy's Office of Naval Intelligence report on the same. Steevens' "With Kitchener to Khartum", a war correspondent on the 1898 expedition. And the anonymous memoir of a British Army officer from the same campaign.
And, finally (so far) the edited letters and diaries of Sir Gerald Graham, whose expedition in 1884 I'm particularly interested in.
If I had credentials, I might be able to get to a university library and get access to copies of these books. If they had them. Or get them at the Library of Congress (especially if they were published in the US). And some are available through Project Gutenberg. But to be able to simply Google and have the book right here in front of me... that is priceless.
I confess when some visionaries early int he public discussion of the possibilities of the Internet suggested that a day like this might come, I was skeptical, perhaps even dismissive. How could people find the time to do all this, much less the data storage? But someone has. All hail Google!
But I am astonished and grateful for the immense amount of (fairly obscure) material it contains. While I'm on this eastern Sudan 1884 kick, I've been delving, and I've come up with some gems.
One is Bennett Burleigh's "Desert Warfare" and his "Kharthoum Campaign, 1898". BB was one of the principal war correspondents of the period, and he was "embedded" (to use modern concepts) with both the Suakin and both the later Khartoum expeditions. Also available is "Days and Nights of Service" by E. A. De Cosson, one of Sir Gerald Graham's staff officers on the Suakin Expedition. Also "Under Crescent and Star", by Andrew Haggard, a British officer in Egpytian service who was stationed at Suakin. "The River Column" by Maj Gen Brackenbury, who commanded part of the relief force sent to rescue Gordon. "The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan" and "With the Camel Corps Up the Nile" by Lord Edward Gleichen. "With the Indian contingent in Egypt: 1882", a war correspondent's memoir of the Arabi Revolt. "The War in Egypt", the Times' account of the same. The US Navy's Office of Naval Intelligence report on the same. Steevens' "With Kitchener to Khartum", a war correspondent on the 1898 expedition. And the anonymous memoir of a British Army officer from the same campaign.
And, finally (so far) the edited letters and diaries of Sir Gerald Graham, whose expedition in 1884 I'm particularly interested in.
If I had credentials, I might be able to get to a university library and get access to copies of these books. If they had them. Or get them at the Library of Congress (especially if they were published in the US). And some are available through Project Gutenberg. But to be able to simply Google and have the book right here in front of me... that is priceless.
I confess when some visionaries early int he public discussion of the possibilities of the Internet suggested that a day like this might come, I was skeptical, perhaps even dismissive. How could people find the time to do all this, much less the data storage? But someone has. All hail Google!
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