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Madinah, K.S.A.:: Little, Brown & Company, 1988. First Edition, First Printing; dj w/closed tear, rubbing at folds, unclipped price, in mylar; 756 clean, unmarked pages. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Illus. 8vo.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Fair. 1910. First Edition. Softcover. Lacks rear cover and spine. Front cover, title page, preface, and contents are detached but present. Binding is loose in general. Pages are browned. First several leaves have chips to the lower outer corners, larger to the title page. Front cover has chipping and creasing to the outer corners, light wear to the outer edge. ; Woods A16, first edition, paperback edition, with index. ; 152 pages .

Red cloth binding, gilt title.
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. The book describes General Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton's campaign from Bloemfontein to Pretoria. Hamilton travelled four hundred miles from Bloemfontein to Pretoria fighting ten major battles with Boer forces and fourteen minor ones. 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 British colonies and the free Boer states of Transvaal and Orange Free State, immediately made arrangements to take part. He arranged to act as correspondent for The Morning Post, and by playing them off against the rival newspaper, the Daily Mail, obtained a salary of £250 per month. He also persuaded the Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain to… Read More