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With the Guards' Brigade During the Boer War - Edward P Lowry - Bog

- On Campaign from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back

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The Guards in the last of the Queen Empress's wars These are the doings of the Guards Brigade as experienced by one of their number-a padre-through the Great Boer War. The inexorable slowness of the British column, the heat and dust of the South African terrain, sickness within the troops, the elusive Boer enemy often just beyond reach except during lightning fast close encounters, the suffering and displacement of the civilian population and the retaliatory burning of farms all appear within the pages of this first hand experience of the British Army's most renowned regiments on campaign at the turn of the twentieth century.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781846776229
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 228
  • Udgivet:
  • 4. marts 2009
  • Størrelse:
  • 150x220x21 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 458 g.
  • 2-4 uger.
  • 17. april 2025

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The Guards in the last of the Queen Empress's wars
These are the doings of the Guards Brigade as experienced by one of their number-a padre-through the Great Boer War. The inexorable slowness of the British column, the heat and dust of the South African terrain, sickness within the troops, the elusive Boer enemy often just beyond reach except during lightning fast close encounters, the suffering and displacement of the civilian population and the retaliatory burning of farms all appear within the pages of this first hand experience of the British Army's most renowned regiments on campaign at the turn of the twentieth century.

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