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Ian Hamilton’s March £ 15.95 – £ 22.95 The dramatic follow-up to Winston Churchill’s wildly successful book, “London to Ladysmith via Pretoria,” this volume details the second part of the famous British leader’s Second Anglo-Boer War experiences.
Ian Hamilton's March completes Churchill's coverage of the Boer War, publishing 17 letters to the Morning Post, spanning 31 March through 14 June 1900. (Cohen, A8.1.a, Vol. I, p.105) The narrative in Ian Hamilton's March includes the liberation of the Pretoria prison camp where Churchill had been held.
14 de oct. de 2013 · Ian Hamilton's March collects Churchill's later despatches as he marched alongside a column of the main British army from Bloemfontein to Pretoria. Published together, these books are a vivid eye-witness account of a landmark period in British Imperial History and an insightful chronicle of a formative experience by Britain's greatest war-time leader.
Ian Hamilton's March was the second of Churchill's two books based on his newspaper despatches sent from the front in South Africa during the Boer War. Condition of this copy is good plus. The red cloth binding is tight with sharp corners and retains good spine color, despite a faint moisture stain along the rear hinge and a modest forward lean to the binding.
Ian Hamilton's March is a book written by Winston Churchill. It is a description of his experiences accompanying the British army during the Second Boer War, continuing after the events described in London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. Churchill had officially resigned from the British army in order to pursue a political career, but on hearing of the outbreak of war in South Africa between the ...
Finely bound first-edition copy of Churchill's Ian Hamilton's March. Winston Churchill (English). Ian Hamilton's March. Together with Extracts from the Diary of Lieutenant H. Frankland, a Prisoner of War at Pretoria. London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1900. Illustrated with foldout plate.
These despatches sent to the Morning Post from the the war front in 1899 were originally published in book form as London to Ladysmith via Pretoria and Ian Hamilton's March under the title The Boer War. In both books Churchill adopts a personal approach and recounts his own experiences.
