Buchanan Capt Angus (13 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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Condition: New. 2004 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1919). SB. xx vii+ 247pp with 3maps and 8 illustrations.Published Price £18 The Great War in east Africa was much more than a 'sideshow' - it was a classic guerilla campaign that has entered military legend. The author of this account was an officer of the 25th Royal Fusiliers, a British unit in the predominantly Indian and South African allied army that attempted, with huge losses and only limited success, to hunt down the elusive Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the brilliant and resourceful commander in German East Africa. Lettow's small force of white officers and native African 'Askaris' ranged across a vast region, twice the size of Germany itself, to keep one jump ahead of their allied pursuers. Initially outnumbered, the allies harried their quarry, but never finally defeated him. The Armistice found Lettow still in the field, barely able to credit the news that his beloved Fatherland had crumbled. Buchanan's book shows why one of his soldiers griped: 'Ah, I wish to hell I was in France! There one lives like a gentleman and dies like a man; here one lives like a pig and dies like a dog'. The allies found themselves battling a hostile climate, terrain, and above all disease - especially the dreaded malaria - which took a greater toll of lives than the fierce enemy resistance. A nature lover, Buchanan makes many observations of African flora and fauna, as well as his unsparing account of the tough military campaign. The eight illustrations, including landscape drawings, reflect the author's love of nature. There are three maps. Book.…

Condition: New. In English.

Condition: New. 2009. paperback. . . . . .

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Condition: New. 2004 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1919). HB. xx vii+ 247pp with 3maps and 8 illustrations. The Great War in east Africa was much more than a 'sideshow' - it was a classic guerilla campaign that has entered military legend. The author of this account was an officer of the 25th Royal Fusiliers, a British unit in the predominantly Indian and South African allied army that attempted, with huge losses and only limited success, to hunt down the elusive Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the brilliant and resourceful commander in German East Africa. Lettow's small force of white officers and native African 'Askaris' ranged across a vast region, twice the size of Germany itself, to keep one jump ahead of their allied pursuers. Initially outnumbered, the allies harried their quarry, but never finally defeated him. The Armistice found Lettow still in the field, barely able to credit the news that his beloved Fatherland had crumbled. Buchanan's book shows why one of his soldiers griped: 'Ah, I wish to hell I was in France! There one lives like a gentleman and dies like a man; here one lives like a pig and dies like a dog'. The allies found themselves battling a hostile climate, terrain, and above all disease - especially the dreaded malaria - which took a greater toll of lives than the fierce enemy resistance. A nature lover, Buchanan makes many observations of African flora and fauna, as well as his unsparing account of the tough military campaign. The eight illustrations, including landscape drawings, reflect the author's love of nature. There are three maps. Book.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. The slightest of browning to the endpapers. A very handsome copy with light bumping to one corner.; Green boards with pictorial design of a scene in the desert with one palm tree and a warrior with a rifle. Two small and one large fold-out map. Numerous b&w illustrations. A first-hand account when the British Military fought against German colonial forces in what is now Tanzania, Kenya, and Mozambique.; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xvii, 247, [2] pages.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. A first edition of this scarce First World War narrative by Victoria Cross recipient Angus Buchanan. The scarce first edition, second impression of this biographical account of a soldier's involvement in the East Africa Campaign of the First World War, in the very scarce original dust wrapper, price unclipped.With second impression to dust wrapper back strip.The work of Captain Angus Buchanan, a British army officer who served with the 25th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, also known as the Frontiersmen, and who participatedinthe campaign from May 1915 through October 1917.He describes the march from British East Africa to GermanEast Africa, through the regions ofMount Kilimanjaro, Lake Victoria, partsofthe Belgian Congo, and the Lindi regionof present-day Southeastern Tanzania, in this fascinating First World War narrative.Illustrated with eight plates and three folding maps. Collated, complete.With two pages of advertisements to the rear. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with bumping to spine head and tail. Front hinge strained, but firmly held. Dust wrapper significantly age toned to back strip, lacking large portion to back strop head and centre of back strip, with a small loss to back strip tail. Fading to perimeters of front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Second Impression. Frontispiece and seven other plates, three folding maps. Very good in the original pictorial cloth, s. xxii, 246pp.

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