In the Ranks of the C.I.V - Couverture rigide

Childers, Erskine

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1862270538 ISBN 13 : 9781862270534

Editeur : Spellmount Publishers Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

A biographical account of service with the C.I.V. artillery battery at the end of the Anglo-Boer War, and the beginning of guerilla operations, in the Orange Free State and Transvaal.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Robert Erskine Childers ( 25 June, 1870 – 24 November, 1922), born in Mayfair, London, was the author of the influential novel The Riddle of the Sands. As with most men of his social background and education, Childers was a steadfast believer in the British Empire. He fought in both the Boer War and the First World War. His attitude to Britain's establishment and politics, however, had become somewhat equivocal by the start of the First World War. He had resigned his membership of the Liberal Party, and with it his hopes of winning a parliamentary seat, over concessions to Unionists and a further postponement of Irish self-rule; he had written works critical of British policy in Ireland and in its South African possessions; above all, in July 1914, he had smuggled a shipment of arms bought in Germany to supply nationalists in Ireland. On 10 November, he was arrested by Irish Free State forces at his home. He was tried by a military court on the charge of possessing a Spanish-made "Destroyer" .32 calibre semi-automatic pistol on his person in violation of the Emergency Powers Resolution. The pistol had been a gift from Michael Collins while the two men had been on the same side. Childers was convicted by the military court and sentenced to death on 20 November. While his appeal against the sentence was still pending, Childers was executed on 24 November by firing squad at the Beggar's Bush Barracks in Dublin. He was buried at the barracks until 1923 when his body was reinterred in the republican plot of Glasnevin Cemetery.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Erskine Childers, the famed author of the classic novel of sailing and spying The Riddle of the Sands served with London’s finest-The City Imperial Volunteers within its artillery arm-associated with the Honourable Artillery Company. Childers-together with his enthusiastic colleagues from the professions of the city were keen to fight the Boers of South Africa and he has written an engaging and detailed account of his time with the regiment during the war. It is written in an easy informal style-of the kind that has ensured that his better known writing has endured for over a century-as he takes the reader through training to experiences on the battlefield itself.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Spellmount Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1862270538
• ISBN 13: 9781862270534
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible