Hi Mark,
If you are interested in the history of the Sudan, especially the period of the Mahdi and afterwards, you should try to find this book :
- KARARI -
The Sudanese Account of the Battle of Omdurman
by Ismat Hasan Zulfo (1980)
(translated from the Arabic by Peter Clark)
ISBN :
0 7232 2677 6 5 (hard cover) or
0 7232 2499 4 (paperback)
This books tells the story of the battle of Omdurman and everything preceding it, from the view of the Sudanese. Most book on this topic are written by European writers using European (British) sources. This book gives a new perspective to the story. Really interesting.
Freddy