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Pictorial Hardcover. Condition: Good to Very Good. 1st Edition. Some sunning to spine and upper front. Internally very clean. Binding tight. 631pp Size: 180mm x 250mm. Book.

Hardback. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Quarto Size [approx 24cm x 30.5cm]. Mint condition in pictorial laminated boards. Issued without dustjacket. A new copy. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 631 pages. Brings together Australian eye-witness accounts of the Anglo-Boer War between October 1899 and May 1902.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. xxiii, 631pp, index, bibliography, glossary, appendices, maps, bw ills. Or pictorial laminated boards. Very slight bump at top front corner. Brings together Australian eyewitnes accounts of the Anglo-Boer War. Includes the guerilla phase of the war from July 1900 to May 1902 which has traditionally been avoided by writers with generally only superficial accounts previously published. Of importance to history students, military enthusiaist, collectors of medals and genealogists. The birth of the Australian spirit that became famous a generation later on the cliffs of Gallipoli. Size: 8vo.

1st edition laminated boards Very Nice Copy lge. octavo xxiii + 631pp., b/w plates, text ills., maps, appends., bibliog., indexes, Brings together Australian eye-witness accounts of the Anglo-Boer War between October 1899 and May 1902. Signed by both authors on the half-title.

1st edition laminated boards As New lge. octavo xxiii + 631pp., b/w plates, text ills., maps, appends., bibliog., indexes, Brings together Australian eye-witness accounts of the Anglo-Boer War between October 1899 and May 1902. Signed by both authors on the title-page.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. With many illustrations, signed by the author on the front free endpaper, a fine copy in fine dustjacket. ; 250 x 180mm; xiv, 613 pages; Signed by Author.

*Sales/posting to the USA suspended*. Card covers, x/666pp, b&w photos, maps. Light wear to card edges; a very good copy. From the time that General Stuart Beatson, British Column Commander, called the 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles "a fat-arsed, useless lot of wasters" and "white-livered curs" it seems that the smear has been impossible to remove. Although Beatson apologised for his intemperate remarks, the stigma remained and the scrutiny on the perceived short-comings of the 5th VMR continued to this day. The overwhelming of the camp of the left wing of the contingent by a smaller number of Boers in the space of some 20 minutes, on the Transvaal farm of Wilmansrust, on the evening of 12 June 1901, was noted by contemporary correspondents and historians as one of the worst calamities to befall an Australian unit in the Boer War, and the legacy of an easy capitulation remains, and it seems that the unit is remembered rather for this single disaster than for the good work it achieved as a fighting force. One in four of the 5th VMR men took up arms again in 1914 and as a reflection of their contribution there was a 40% casualty rate as well as one Victoria Cross, seven DSOs, eight Military Crosses, six Military Medals and two DCMs gained by them, all of them now in their mid 30s and early 40s. They still considered themselves "the much-maligned Fifth" and the building of a memorial to the unit in St. Kilda Road, Melbourne, paid for by the men themselves, was a defiant reminder of their contribution to Victorias military history.