Triumph of the Sun. Smith U.

At the end of the 19th century, an uprising was raised in Sudan against the Anglo-Egyptian rule. Under the banners of Mahdi’s false prophet, warlike tribes of the desert gathered, and the threat came from them as fiercely as the heat from the sun. The Sudanese capital Hartum is in the siege. Together with hundreds of other British, General Charles Gordon, captain Penrod Ballantin, merchant Ryder Courtney, British consul David Benbruk and his daughter were trapped. Now they have a common fate and a common goal - after all, those who do not have time to leave Hartum are awaiting a terrible death...

“Triumph of the Sun” Wilbur Smith - this is an epic, large -scale book in which history itself comes to life: Eastern splendor and treachery, the noise and rage of the crowd, the battle of drums and the sounds of the battle, heroism and betrayal, gloomy moments of despair and sudden light of hope.