The Boer War
de Holt, Edgar
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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(London: Putnam, 1958). 8vo; original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; tinted top edge; pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper maps; pp. 317, incl. index; plates. Dustwrapper edgeworn and partially sunned, with scuff to spine panel. Very good condition. "The first of modern wars, and yet one in which old-fashioned heroics were still practised - such was the South African War of 1899 - 1902. Khaki replaced scarlet, the importance of camouflage was seen for the first time; and, by means of deadly rifle-fire, and their flexible 'commando' tactics, 50,000 Boers defied a British Army almost ten times as strong. Yet cavalry charges with lance and sabre were still carried out, and Lord Robert's son lost his life in a story-book escapade, galloping into heavy fire to rescue abandoned guns." .
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- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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- The Boer War
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- Holt, Edgar
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- (London: Putnam, 1958)
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- 294 Anglo-Boer War
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- Anglo-Boer War;
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
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- Spine
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- Dustwrapper
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- Sunned
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