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The Egyptian Campaigns 1882 to 1885 - new and revised edition continued to December 1899.
by ROYLE Charles
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- 1900
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London: Hurst and Blackett, 1900. viii and 606 pages. 2 general maps, text maps. Publisher's red cloth with a sphinx in gold on the front board, spine a little faded. Item Price
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Desert Warfare being the chronicle of the Eastern Soudan campaign. With official maps.
by BURLEIGH Bennet
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- 1884
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London: Chapman and Hall, 1884 first edition. xii and 320 pages. 11 plans and maps including 3 large folding maps (two of which were torn and have been well repaired). Later green cloth; original star and crescent decoration relaid on the front board (see photo 2). Burleigh went to the Sudan as correspondent for The Telegraph. Item Price
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A West Pointer with the Boers.
by BLAKE Colonel J Y
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Boston: Angel Guardian Press, 1903 frst edition. 411 pages. 48 plates. Publisher's black cloth titled in white with flags of the Boer republics on the spine and an illustration of the author on horseback on the front board, two private ownership stamps 'Woody Nel collection' on the titlepage (see photo 4).
John Blake was a lieutenant in the US… Read more about this item Item Price
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Major General Sir Henry Hallam-Parr - recollections and correspondence, with a short account of his two sone, Lieutenants A H H Parr and G R Parr.
by FORTESCUE-BRICKDALE Sir C
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- 1917
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ix and 352 pages. 14 plates. Publisher's green cloth. Hallam Parr went to South Africa as military secretary to Sir Bartle Frere and was staff officer to Number 3 Column in the Zulu War. He was in Egypt in 1882 and was wounded at Tel-el-Kebir. In 1884 he was commandant at Suakin. , 1882. London: T Fisher Unwin, 1917 Item Price
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Records of the 1st Somerset Militia (3rd Battalion Somerset Light Infantry).
by KERR W J W
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- 1930
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Aldershot: Gale and Polden, , 1930. xii and 110 pages. 6 colour plates of uniform, 15 illustrations of dress and accoutrements on 4 plates. Publisher's green cloth. Extra illustrated by 21 colour photographs of actual uniforms and equipment taken at the Somerset Light Infantry Museum in 1984. Item Price
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In Memoriam - autograph letter signed by General Horace Smith-Dorrien on Aldworth's burial at Paardeberg, original black bordered portrait, 8 page obituary extracted from regimental orders of the Bedfordshire Regiment etc'.
by ALDWORTH Lt Colonel William
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- 1906
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als written 1906. A4 display book containing the originals listed above, one other original photo, and many other materials relating to Aldworth's death at Paardeberg and the four memorials to him at Truro, Dorking, Cheltenham and Paardeberg.
Colonel Aldworth was killed in action on 18th February 1900 while leading 2nd Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry in an attack… Read more about this item Item Price
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From Korti to Khartum - a journal of the desert march from Korti to Gubat, and of the ascent of the Nile in General Gordon's steamers.
by WILSON Colonel Sir Charles W
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- 1886
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London: William Blackwood, 1886 fourth edition. xxix and 317 pages. Folding map. Publisher's red cloth slightly discoloured. Item Price
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The War in Egypt and the Soudan - an episode in the history of the British Empire, being a descriptive account of the scenes and events of that great drama and sketches of the principal actors in it.
by ARCHER Thomas
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- 1887
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London: Blackie, 1887. 4 volumes. viii and 288 pages; viii and 288 pages; viii and 272 pages; viii and 272 pages. 45 plates. 4to. Publisher's brown cloth embellished in black. Item Price
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Diary of the 9th (QR) Lancers during the South African Campaign 1899 to 1902.
by COLVIN Lt F F and GORDON Captain E R
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London: Cecil Roy, 1904. xiii and 340 pages. Pocket map, text illustrations. Publisher's half red and yellow cloth. The original cover is illustrated on page vii of R G Hackett's South African War Books. Other ranks' copy with part printed label 'Presented to Cpl A A East 3024 as a memento of the war by the officers of the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Green Horse in Ladysmith.
by GORE Lt Colonel Sir John
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- 1901
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London: Sampson Low Marston, 1901. xi and 171 pages. Frontispiece group, 6 plates, folding map. Small 8vo. Publisher's red cloth with green horizontal stripes, headcap chipped. Activities of the 5th Dragoon Guards during the siege. Item Price
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Our Regiments in South Africa 1899-1902 - their record based on the despatches.
by STIRLING John
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- 1903
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London: William Blackwood, 1903. xiv and 532 pages. Publisher's plain blue cloth, covers slightly discoloured. The title page is illustrated on page 112 of R G Hackett's South African War Books. Stirling endeavours to summarise the work of individual regiments and to show the mentions they received in the main despatches. Item Price
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The Pretoria Friend - the authorised medium for official news. Complete set of 17 issues of this broadsheet newspaper from its first issue on 26 June 1900 to 14 July 1900 when it ceased publication.
by STANLEY Lord (British Army press censor)
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Pretoria: without imprint, 1900. A fine set of all 17 issues of this Boer War newspaper preserved in a specially made black leather solander box. Each 4 pages and folded as issued. The Pretoria Friend was started by Lord Stanley, the chief British censor, at Pretoria during the early days of British occupation when the city was still under… Read more about this item Item Price
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Cape of Good Hope: Caffre War and Death of Hintza. Return...dated 8 March 1836....Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 30 May 1836. Number 279.
by D'URBAN Sir Benjamin and others
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- 1836
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London: House of Commons, 1836. 122 pages. 2 folding maps by Arrowsmith. Excellent copy in later quarter cloth. The Xhosa chief Hintza was shot while trying to escape and his body was later mutilated by relic hunters among the settler provisionals pursuing him. D'Urban correctly assessing 'the hold the canting party would make of it in England' attempted to… Read more about this item Item Price
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From Midshipman to Field Marshal.
by WOOD Field Marshal Sir Evelyn
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- 1906
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London: Methuen, 1906. 2 volumes. xiv and 322 pages; vii and 299 pages. 24 illustrations and maps. Publisher's decorated red cloth, spine just beginning to fade (see photo), an excellent pair. Crimea (with the Naval Brigade), Indian Mutiny, and Africa from Ashanti to the Sudan. Item Price
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A South African Bibliography to the year 1925 being a revision and continuation of Sidney Mendelssohn's South African Bibliography (1910) edited at the South African Library, Cape Town
by MENDELSSOHN Sidney
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- 1979
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London: Mansell Publishing, 1979. 4 volumes (A-C; D-Kn; Ko-Ra; Re-Z). xxx and 664 pages; 781 pages; 784 pages; 862 pages. Large 4to. Publisher's red cloth. Edited by Dr A M Lewin Robinson. Item Price
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Correspondence...relative to his military operations in Kaffraria, until the termination of the Kafir War, and to his measures for the future maintenance of peace on that frontier, and the protection and welfare of the people of South Africa
by CATHCART Lt General the Hon Sir George
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- 1857
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London: John Murray, 1857. xiii and 401 pages. 7 folding maps and plans. A fine copy in full nineteenth century tan calf gilt.
Cathcart was killed in battle at Inkermann, and this book which is based largely on his official correspondence appears to have been a labour of love by his widow. He took over the conduct of the Eighth… Read more about this item Item Price
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Seventh Princess Royal's Dragoon Guards - the story of the regiment, 1688-1882; and, With the Regiment in South Africa, 1900-1902, by Major N D H Campbell, Captain W S Whetherley, Captain J E D Holland
by THOMPSON Colonel C W
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Liverpool: The Daily Post, 1913. v and 168 pages. Illustrated throughout with full page and other text illustrations and a series of reconnaissance sketches drawn in South Africa by Major H Dietz, 16 maps (4 folding). 4to. Publisher's maroon cloth with the regimental crest and title in black. (For other British army regimental histories please search my stock using… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Downfall of Lobengula: the course, history and effect of the Matabili War. With contributions by Major P W Forbes, Major Sir John C Willoughby, Mr H Rider Haggard, Mr F C Selous, and Mr P B S Wrey
by WILLS W A and COLLINGBRIDGE L T
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- 1894
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London: The African Review, 1894. xii and 335 pages. 4 folding plans, numerous text illustrations including many portraits. An excellent copy in the publisher's khaki cloth pictorially stamped in colours; the headcap is slightly pulled. (For more books about the military history of the British in Africa please search my stock using the keyword africa.) Item Price
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With Hicks Pasha in the Soudan being an account of the Senaar campaign in 1883. By Colonel the Hon J Colborne, formerly of the 60th and latterly in the service of HM the Khedive
by COLBORNE J
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London: Smith Elder, 1884. xii and 288 pages. Frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with palm tree in gold, spine faded. Misleadingly titled since 'Dishonest John' Colborne was invalided back to Cairo before the Kordofan expedition got under way. Still he was the only survivor of Hicks' staff. In later years he hung around Cairo scratching a living from journalism and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Five Years in Kaffirland; with sketches of the late war in that country, to the conclusion of peace. Written on the spot
by WARD Harriet
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- 1848
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London: Henry Colburn, 1848. 2 volumes. ix and 306 pages; vii and 370 pages. 2 portraits, 1 view, 1 map. Later quarter calf with blue cloth sides and red leather labels, the labels are slightly chipped. Mrs Ward's husband was a captain in the 91st. Her book is the best eye-witness account of the War of the Axe. (For more… Read more about this item Item Price
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