Fire and Sword In The Sudan: A Personal Narrative Of Fighting and Serving The Dervishes 1879-1895 (1899) By Colonel Sir R. Slatin Pasha
 
This book is a facsimile modern reprint of the original edition
 
Major-General Rudolf von Slatin (1857–1932) was an Anglo-Austrian officer in the Sudan appointed Governor-General of Darfur in 1881. Members of the Mahdist forces took him captive after the fall of Khartoum in 1885 and for the next 11 years, he was a prisoner of the Khalifa, Abdullah al-Taashi.  

Slatin eventually escaped with the assistance of the British officer Francis Reginald Wingate. In 1896, he wrote this personal narrative of his years in the Sudan living with the Mahdiyya under the Khalifa’s rule. The book was published in German and Wingate edited this English edition, dedicated to Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria made Slatin an honorary Member (fourth class) of the Royal Victorian Order later that year.
 
Soft Cover
416 Pages
In Good Condition