Second edition. Illustrated and with many folding maps. 8vo., original blue cloth, gilt, dust jacket a little torn with some loss at edges. 456pp. London, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1942.
Churchill and Birdwood served together in Natal as members of Lord Dundonald’s Brigade at the time of the Relief of Ladysmith. He writes: “This is the story of an officer who carried a Field-Marshal’s baton in his knapsack. We believe, on good authority, that every soldier does this. But this soldier, by dint of 40 years’ hard work and devotion to his profession, through many campaigns and in positions of great responsibility, finally received his baton from the King”. Woods B36.
