Sudan Campaign ressources

An' 'ere's ~to~ you, Fuzzy-Wuzzy, with your 'ayrick 'ead of 'air —
You big black boundin' beggar — for you broke a British square!

The failed campaign of 1884 and 1885 in the Sudan to relieve Khartoum, along with the operations around Suakin, has tickled my fancy ever since Peter Gilder gave us those very inspirational articles in the first issues of Wargames World.

What's not to like about a theatre that offers camel-mounted Guards, makeshift gunboats, Fuzzy-Wuzzys and Victorian egoes that would make the Donald look positively tame?

Below is a series of links to period books which can be found as PDFs on the Internet Archives website. Also included are two recent academic works that, as such, are freely available, but this should not prevent you from buying the corresponding books.

Geography

• Handbook of the Sudan by Lord Edward Gleichen (London: War Office. Intelligence Division, 1898) 

• The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan: a compendium prepared by officers of the Sudan government - Vol. 1: Geographical, descriptive, and historical, by Count Gleichen (London: HMSO, 1905)
• The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan: a compendium prepared by officers of the Sudan governmen - Vol. 2: Routes, by Count Edward Gleichen (London: HMSO, 1905) 

• The Soudan and the Valley of the White Nile by Alvan S. Southworth, (New York: Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York, 1874)

• The Route from Suakin to Berber by C. P. Stone (Science, 1885) 

• Khartoum and the Blue and White Niles Vol.1 by George Melly (London: Colburn & Co., 1852)
• Khartoum and the Blue and White Niles Vol.2 by George Melly (London: Colburn & Co., 1852) 

Pre-1884 Sudan

• With Hicks Pasha in the Soudan: Being an Account of the Senaar Campaign in 1883 by J Colborne (London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1884)

• '83 to '87 in the Soudan: With an Account of Sir William Hewett's Mission to King Kohn of Abyssinia Vol.1 by Augustus Blandy Wylde (London: Remington & Co, 1888)
• '83 to '87 in the Soudan: With an Account of Sir William Hewett's Mission to King Kohn of Abyssinia Vol.2 by Augustus Blandy Wylde (London: Remington & Co, 1888)

• Seven years in the Soudan : being a record of explorations, adventures, and campaigns against the Arab slave hunters by Romolo Gessi (London: S. Low, Marston & Co, 1892)

General Histories

• Cassell's history of the war in the Soudan Vol.1 by James Grant (London: Cassel, 1885-86) 
• Cassell's history of the war in the Soudan Vol.2 by James Grant (London: Cassel, 1885-86) 
• Cassell's history of the war in the Soudan Vol.3 by James Grant (London: Cassel, 1885-86) 
• Cassell's history of the war in the Soudan Vol.4 by James Grant (London: Cassel, 1885-86) 
• Cassell's history of the war in the Soudan Vol.5 by James Grant (London: Cassel, 1885-86) 
• Cassell's history of the war in the Soudan Vol.6 by James Grant (London: Cassel, 1885-86)

• The War in Egypt and the Soudan Vol.1 by Thomas Archer (London: Blackie, 1886)
• The War in Egypt and the Soudan Vol.2 by Thomas Archer (London: Blackie, 1886)
• The War in Egypt and the Soudan Vol.3 by Thomas Archer (London: Blackie, 1886)
• The War in Egypt and the Soudan Vol.4 by Thomas Archer (London: Blackie, 1886)

• The Story of the Soudan War by Melville Pimblett (London: Remington, 1885)

• The Egyptian campaigns, 1882 to 1885 by Charles Royle (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1900)

• The war in the Soudan for the rescue of "Chinese Gordon" by Raleigh Edward Colston (New York: Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, 1885) 

• Mahdiism and the Egyptian Sudan: Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Mahdiism and of Subsequent Events in the Sudan to the Present Time by Major Reginald Wingate (London: Macmillan, 1891)

• The war in the Soudan and the causes which led to it by Arnold Haultain (Toronto, 1885)

Mahdi state

• A prisoner of the khaleefa; twelve years' captivity at Omdurman by Charles Neufeld (London: Chapman & Hall, 1899) 

• Ten years' captivity in the Mahdi's camp, 1882-1892 by Joseph Ohrwalder (London: Law, 1892) 

• Fire and sword in the Sudan : a personal narrative of fighting and serving the Dervishes, 1879-1895 by Rudolf Carl Slatin (London: Edward Arnold, 1914)

Siege of Khartoum 

• Letters from Khartoum : written during the siege by Frank Power (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1885) 

• Gordon at Khartoum; being a personal narrative of events, in continuation of "A secret history of the English occupation of Egypt" by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (London : S. Swift and Co., ltd, 1911) 

• La chute de Khartoum, 26 janvier 1885 by Octave Borelli, (Paris: Librairies-imprimeries réunies, 1893) 

Nile campaign

• The campaign of the cataracts : being a personal narrative of the great Nile expedition of 1884-5 by Sir William Francis Butler (London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1887)

• With the camel corps up the Nile by Lord Edward Gleichen (London: Chapman & Hall, 1888)

• The River Column by Henry Brackenbury (Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1885)

• From Korti to Khartum ; a journal of the desert march from Korti to Gubat and of the ascent of the Nile in General Gordon's steamers by Charles W. Wilson (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1886) 

• Too Late for Gordon and Khartoum: The Testimony of an Independent Eye-witness of the Heroic Efforts for their Rescue and Relief by Alexander Macdonald (London: J. Murray, 1887) 

Suakin campaign

• Desert Warfare: Being the Chronicle of the Eastern Soudan Campaign by Burleigh Bennet (London: Chapman and Hall, 1884) 

• Suakin, 1885 : being a sketch of the campaign of this year by Ernest Gambier Parry (London: K. Paul, Trench & Co., 1885) 

• The Battle of Tofrek: Fought Near Suâkin, March 22nd, 1885, Under Major-General Sir John Carstairs McNeill by William Galloway (London: W.H. Allen, 1887) 

• My service days : India, Afghanistan, Suakin '85, and China by Sir Norman Robert Stewart (London: J. Ouseley, 1908) 

• Frontier and overseas expeditions from India, Vol. VI Expeditions Overseas (Calcutta: India Army Intelligence Branch, 1911)
  

Biographies

• The Life of Colonel Fred Burnaby by Thomas Wright (London: Everett, 1908) 

• The life of Major-General Sir Charles William Wilson, Royal Engineers by Colonel Sir Charles Watson RE (London: J. Murray, 1909)

• Charles George Gordon by Sir William Francis Butler (London : Macmillan, 1889)

Others

• The camel, its uses and management by Arthur Glyn Leonard (London : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1889)

Modern historical works

• The Victorian soldier in Africa by Edward M. Spiers (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004) available on the OAPEN Library website

• Wolseley, Wilson and the Failure of the Khartoum Campaign by Colonel Mike Snook (Cranfield University, 2014)