The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War - Couverture rigide

Churchill, Winston S.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0850522609 ISBN 13 : 9780850522600

Editeur : Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 1989

Synopsis

First published in 1898 this text describes the force to which Churchill was attached when it was sent to subdue the rebellious Mohmands on the North-West Frontier in 1897. The author was a subaltern in the 4th Hussars but found regimental life too quiet to satisfy his adventurous spirit and when he heard that a Field Force of three Brigades was being formed under General Sir Bindon Blood to quell a revolt of the Pathan tribesmen, asked to join it.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill KG OM CH TD PC PCc DL FRS RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. As Prime Minister, Churchill led Britain to victory over Nazi Germany during World War II. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a non-academic historian, and a writer (as Winston S. Churchill). He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his overall, lifetime body of work.

Présentation de l'éditeur

On general grounds I deprecate prefaces. I have always thought that if an author cannot make friends with the reader and explain his objects in two or three hundred pages he is not likely to do so in fifty lines. And yet the temptation of speaking a few words behind the scenes as it were is so strong that few writers are able to resist it. I shall not try.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0850522609
• ISBN 13: 9780850522600
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible