YOUNG (Francis Brett).

Marching on Tanga (with General Smuts in East Africa).

First edition. Frontispiece and twenty-nine other plates, one folding map. A little light browning, mainly to the endpapers, contemporary inscription to the front free endpaper, overall a very good copy in the original blue cloth, spine sunned, slightly rubbed and worn at the extremities. xii, 266pp. London etc., W. Collins Sons & Co., 1917.

£85.00

Falls pp.241: “One of the comparatively rare classics of the War, and for long about the only one. He is a master of strong and simple prose, he had an intelligent comprehension of the military operations, and a ready eye for the beauties of this magnificent country. So much grave beauty of description and of sentiment it is hard to find in any other book descriptive of the War; yet it is by no means the musing of a sentimentalist with his head in the air, and, in fact, gives an extraordinarily vivid picture of the conditions of the campaign.”

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