On Commando --- FIRST EDITION
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FIRST EDITION, Published by Methuen & Co., London, 1902, hardcover, 183 pages , also 40 pages of publisher's catalogue, frontispiece of author, fore-edges and bottom edges uncut, overall condition: very good.
183 pages, 8vo (200 x 135 mm), frontispiece portrait, red cloth gilt, spine faded, fore-edges and bottom edges uncut, overall a good copy
This book 'was written in a prisoner-of-war camp in India by a young Transvaaler, Dietlof van Warmelo. The manuscript was smuggled from the camp to Holland; it was translated into English and published in London in 1902, before the end of the war.'
The manuscript, written in a prisoner-of-wear camp in India was smuggled out to Holland. A very personal account of a young man who joined his commando and fought alongside his commandant until he was captured by the British. Full of adventures, descriptions of engagements with the enemy and the hardships of field life