Auteur | Smith, Wilbur |
ISBN | 9780330412650 |
Uitgeverij | Pan MacMillan |
In the Sudan, decades of brutal misgovernment by the ruling Egyptian Khedive in Cairo precipitate a fierce and bloody rebellion. Against the vivid and bloody backdrop of the siege of Khartoum, in which British General Charles George Gordon is killed and the British retreat, three powerful men fight to survive.