MOYSE-BARTLETT (Lieut.-Colonel H.)

The King's African Rifles.

A Study in the Military History of East and Central Africa, 1890-1945.

First edition. Frontispiece and twenty-three other plates, two facsimiles to the text, thirty-six maps on eleven folding sheets, numerous maps and sketches to the text. A near fine copy in the original black cloth, gilt, in dust-jacket, just a little rubbed. xx, 728pp. Aldershot, Gale & Polden Ltd., 1956.

£200.00

Perkins p.261. “…this huge work… stand[s] head and shoulders above anything else ever written about East African soldiers. Very deeply researched, cogently arranged, the narrative contains a mass of information which reflects the book’s sub-title.” Apparently only 800 copies were produced.

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