Gordon at Khartoum

The year is 1883 and Gladstone finds that the cutting of the Suez Canal has involved Britain irrevocably in Egypt's affairs. General Gordon, Governor of the Sudan, is sent on a mission to evacuate Khartoum. He is besieged there for ten months by the Mahdi's troops and is killed two days before a relief force arrives. This gripping historical account focuses on the bravery of this great man.