Author: Gibbs, Peter.
Title: The History of the British South Africa Police. Volume One. The First Line of Defence 1899-1903.
Description: British South Africa Police. Salisbury 1972 1st edition. Printed orange & white on navy paper-covered boards. 266pp illustrated 8vo. Bookplate to front pastedown. 4 square corners. top edge dusty else a conservatively VG copy in poor pictorial dustwrapper (worn with loss at head of spine). Formed in 1899 as the British South Africa Company's Police, this volume covers the occupation of Mashonaland, Umtasa's Kraal, the Mashonaland Mounted Police, the occupation of Matabeleland, Pitsani, The Jameson Raid, the Matabele & Mashonaland Rebellions, Cannon Kopje, and the Relief of Mafeking.

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