GOODBYE DOLLY GRAY The Story of the Boer War RAYNE KRUGER ( Hardcover )

 GOODBYE DOLLY GRAY The Story of the Boer War ;  RAYNE KRUGER ; Hardcover ;  Cassell & Company First published 1959 ; No. of Pages ; 540  including the Index  ; Illustrated .

Condition ; NO Dust jacket ; good tight binding ;  SLIGHT Fraying at the extreme ends of the spine  ; Writing added - a name and date ( 1960 )  plus his personal stamp on the first blank page  - no other writing added  ; pages clean - no browning 

"Taking his title from that bade farewell to an era, Rayner Kruger brilliantly describes the background, the arms and armies, the campaigns and personalities of the war in which soldiers from across the British Empire marched to a succession of brave defeats at hands of sharpshooting farmers. These were calamitous blows, struck not only at an immense British Army but - as t Review; " Taking his title from that bade farewell to an era, Rayner Kruger brilliantly describes the background, the arms and armies, the campaigns and personalities of the war in which soldiers from across the British Empire marched to a succession of brave defeats at hands of sharpshooting farmers. These were calamitous blows, struck not only at an immense British Army but - as the old century passed into the new - at Victorian prestige, assumptions and complacency."

Note - also listed by me as a separate item  is this same book in a Softcover format .