For war game players and writers, the MWSB provides basic historical information, including much hard to find detail that exists in no other source.
By providing well researched facts on army organizations, tactics, weaponry, soldier and warrior dress and costume, it is possible to refight actual and what if? battles as miniature war games, learning how they were lost or won in ways not possible by reading about them alone.
Volume 1 covers basic information on the Egyptian Army, the Bashi-Ba.
(virtual) Armchair General Publishing The mahdist wars source book: vol. 1: comprising materials originally appearing in savage and soldier magazine, paperback/patrick r. wilson
