1) Osprey Men at Arms Series: The Sudan Campaigns 1881-1898 #59 page 16 - "Disembarkation of Parker Pasha's troops", Tokar Expedition. Good for small steam powered boats, whale boats and lighters.

2) Osprey Men at Arms Series: The British Army on Campaign 1816-1902 (4): 1882-1902 #201 Should have at least one illustration but does not.

3) Osprey Campaign Series Khartoum 1885 #23

page 73 - Bordein and Telahawiya side wheelers, showing improvised 'armor', according to the caption each boat could carry 130 troops with supplies plus a 3 barrel Nordenfelt on a carriage and a casson. Great detail. page 74 - bow of a steamer showing a field gun in an improvised turret, sand bags armor plate and wood, on the side wheeler Bordein. Great detail. page 76 - Safieh, side wheeler, with wood, metal and sandbag 'armor', view from the stern. Great detail. page 77 - Safieh view from the bow. Great detail.

4) Osprey Campaign Series Omdurman 1898: Kitchener's Victory in the Sudan #29

page 20 - photo of the Abu Klea stern wheeler, great side shot for details. page 21 - Fatah in two illustrations, actually the top drawing is the Sultan, has some good detail. page 22 - a panorama of a flotilla with a stern wheeler in the foreground, fair for some details, especially awnings and troop barges. pages 28-29 - gunboat El Teb, stern wheeler, going through the cataracts, good for some detail especially the bow. page 43 - gunboat Zafir, sternwheeler, fair for details. page 45 - close-up of machineguns and gun in action. page 55 - screw gunboat, some good detail. page 56 - panoramic view of the Nile with 5 stern wheelers, a screw and a side wheeler, too small to determine detail but great for overall impressions. page - 69 Melik showing hastely applied armor plate with spaces between the plates, single stack screw, shows 9pdr, 2 1pdr Maxim-Nordenfelts above wheel house. page 70 - panoramic view including 3 boats, foreground a 9pdr quick firing gun on the Melik, in background are two armored stern wheelers.

5) Michael Barthorp War on the Nile page 112 - side wheeler Safieh. Great detail.

6) Lawrence James The Savage Wars: British Campaigns in Africa 1870-1920 facing page 103 - the gunboat Melek (Melik) conveying Sudanese troops, packed like sardines, good for ideas.

7) Henry Keown-Boyd A Good Dusting: The Sudan Campaigns 1883-1899

page 66 - Safiya, side wheeler, poor on detail. facing page 189 - El Teb, stern wheeler, fair detail in color see above page 28. page 216 - the transport steamer Ambigole, carrying the Lanchasire Fusiliers "packed like sardines" on a transport barge. page 221 - panoramic view of a fleet of gunboats, color see page 56 above. page 222 - the Sultan, fair detail.

8) Philip Ziegler Omdurman page 38 - photo of the gunboat Melik, great for details. page 98 - the Sultan, see Boyd-Keown page 222 page 118 - see page 70 above page 141 - the Melik, see page 69 above. page 218-219 - in background some good detail.

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