Author: Brig.-General J. H. V. Crowe Title: General Smuts&Apos; Campaign in East Africa
Description: London, John Murray, 1918 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this account of General Smuts' East African Campaign of 1916. Illustrated with four folding maps. The first edition, first impression of this work. An account by Brig. General J. H. V. Crowe of the 1916 East African Campaign, a series of battles and guerrilla actions which started in German East Africa and spread to Portuguese Mozambique, Northern Rhodesia, British East Africa, the Uganda Protectorate, and the Belgian Congo, until German troops surrendered in 1918 after confirmation of the armistice that ended the First World War. The troops were personally led by Field Marshal Jan Smuts. With an introduction by J. C. Smuts himself.Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, and four folding maps. Collated, complete.Held in a laminated hand-made protective dust wrapper, with typed title to the back strip. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with fading to spine. Boards bright. Held in a laminated hand-made dust wrapper, with typed title to the back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean, with the odd spot. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .
Keywords: Jan Smuts Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts East African campaign first world war Field Marshal Jan Christian Smuts Not Stated
Price: GBP 150.00 = appr. US$ 214.20 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 887F31
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