Inicio > Humanidades > Historia > Historia militar > In the Ranks of the C. I. V. - A Narrative and Diary of Personal Experiences with the C. I. V. Battery (Honourable Artillery Company) in South Africa
In the Ranks of the C. I. V. - A Narrative and Diary of Personal Experiences with the C. I. V. Battery (Honourable Artillery Company) in South Africa

In the Ranks of the C. I. V. - A Narrative and Diary of Personal Experiences with the C. I. V. Battery (Honourable Artillery Company) in South Africa

Erskine Childers / Ryan Desmond

30,50 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
Fournier Press
Año de edición:
2009
Materia
Historia militar
ISBN:
9781444630541
30,50 €
IVA incluido
Disponible

Selecciona una librería:

  • Donde los libros
  • Librería 7artes
  • Librería Elías (Asturias)
  • Librería Kolima (Madrid)
  • Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Sobre IBD

'In the Ranks of the C.I.V.' is a 1900 account by Erskine Childers of his time spent as part of an artillery company in the South African Wars (1879-1915). This volume will appeal to those with an interest in the Boer War or British imperialism, and it is not to be missed by fans and collectors of Childers’s work. Contents include: 'The ’Montfort’', 'Cape town and Stellenbosch', 'Piquetberg Road', 'Bloemfontein', 'Lindley', 'Bethlehem', 'Bultfontein', 'Slabbert’s Nek And Fouriesberg', 'To Pretoria', etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author. Robert Erskine Childers (1870-1922) was a British-born Irish writer. Other notable works by this author include: 'The Riddle of the Sands' (1903), 'The Framework for Home Rule' (1911), and 'War and the Arme Blanche' (1910).

Artículos relacionados

  • Waterloo Betrayed
    Stephen M. Beckett / Stephen MBeckett
    THIS BOOK HAS BEEN SUPERCEDEDSee Operations of the Armée du Nord : 1815, The Analysis for the definitive guide of French operations in 1815.   Discover why Napoleon really lost the Waterloo Campaign Napoleon was betrayed during 1815 There is no doubt of this. The Traitors admitted as much, and the Allied powers documented their acts. In the immediate aftermath of Napoleon's...
    Disponible

    38,86 €

  • The Price They Paid
    Michael Putzel
    The Price They Paid is the stunning and dramatic true story of a legendary helicopter commander in Vietnam and the flight crews that followed him into the most intensive helicopter warfare ever-and how that brutal experience has changed their lives in the forty years since the war ended. ...
    Disponible

    11,07 €

  • Uniforms of Russian army during the Napoleonic war vol.17
    Aleksandr Vasilevich Viskovatov / Mark Conrad
    This volume is related to the Russian Army during the zar Alexander I era, and are about the Guard cavalry regiments (part 1). Compiled at Saint Petersburg during the year from 1837 and 1851, the Historical Description of the Clothing and Arms of the Russian Army has had an enormous impact and great importance for the study on the history of Russian costume and uniformology dev...
    Disponible

    40,78 €

  • Cyber Warfare and Cyber Terrorism
    ...
    Disponible

    217,45 €

  • Armed Robotic Systems Emergence
    Robert j. Bunker
    The fielding of armed robotic systems--droids and drones that are teleoperated, semi-autonomous, and even autonomous--has been slowly but surely transitioning from pure science fiction into military reality on the battlefields of the early 21st century. These systems currently have no artificial intelligence (AI) whatsoever and, in most cases, are simply operated by soldiers (a...
    Disponible

    8,64 €

  • SNIPER ONE
    DAN MILLS
    ...

Otros libros del autor

  • The Riddle of the Sands
    Erskine Childers / Ryan Desmond
    'The Riddle of the Sands - A Record of Secret Service Recently Achieved' is a 1903 novel by British-born Irish writer Erskine Childers (1870-1922). 'The Riddle of the Sands' is a nautical tale of a two-man sailing trip along the German coast at the beginning of the twentieth century. An accomplished yachtsman, Childers uses this realistic and portentous story to warn Britain of...
    Disponible

    18,26 €

  • War and the Arme Blanche
    Erskine Childers / Ryan Desmond
    Robert Erskine Childers (1870-1922) was a British-born Irish writer. In his early career, he was a notable military historian and critic, famously writing an account of the Boer War for which he was a correspondent. In his 1910 work, 'War and the Arme Blanche' Childers offers a critique of the cavalry. Employing his personal experiences in the Boer War, he argues that instead o...
    Disponible

    28,53 €

  • German Influence on British Cavalry
    Erskine Childers / Ryan Desmond
    First published in 1911, this vintage book contains an fascinating account of how British cavalry was influenced by German practices and techniques at the turn of the twentieth century. Contents include: 'Introductory', 'Sir John French on', 'The Arme Blanche', 'The British Theory of The Arme Blanche', 'Cavalry In Combat', 'Tactics Against The Various Arms', 'The Fight Of The I...
    Disponible

    20,20 €