Naval and Military
Downfall of the Dervishes. (1898)
Being a Sketch of the Final Sudan Campaign of 1898. Photogravure portrait frontispiece, four maps on three sheets, one of them folding. Some browning, otherwise very good in the original maroon cloth, gilt, slightly sunned at the spine. xii, 256pp. Methuen & Co.,
The author, a lecturer at Hertford College, Oxford, was in the Sudan having managed to get accreditation as Special Correspondent for The Westminster Gazette covering the final attack on Omdurman. Despised by Kitchener as representatives of the Press, the amateur correspondents like Bennett were equally disliked by the professionals as "interlopers". They "... paid their own expenses and hoped by receipt of a fixed fee per letter at least to break even." [Wilkinson-Latham From Our Special Correspondent p.224] Bennett later "... terminated his amateur status by becoming the press censor on the Turkish staff during the Balkan Wars of 1912." [ibid.] In Who's Who his recreations are listed as "Shooting, fishing, investigating haunted houses." and in 1927 he contributed as title to Kegan, Paul's "Today and Tomorrow" series entitled Apollonius, or the Present and Future of Psychical Research.
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