Author: Childers, Erskine
Publisher: Spellmount Ltd Pub
Year: 1999
ISBN: 1862270538
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Description:
New book, 301 pages. This book is a remarkable history in a number of repects. For one thing, it is an account of a Victorian military campaigner written by a man in the ranks, at a time when such accounts were still a rarity. Although it was something of a literary convention in the late nineteenth century for retired officers in the army and navy to write their memoirs, it was unusual for ordinary soldiers to do so. This is his personal diary of service in the Orange Free State and Transvaal at the end of the conventional war - and beginning of guerrilla operations.