DERVISH (Wordsworth Military Library)

Gordon at Khartoum, the Charge of the 21st Lancers at Omdurman and other famous episodes of British military history took place against the backdrop of the Mahdist state in the Sudan. For nearly 20 years the Dervishes (or "Ansar" as they preferred to be called) and their visionary Muslim empire fought the European powers to a standstill.