Military History

The Years of an Imperial Battalion, b&w illustrations from portraits, engravings and contemporary photographs, maps (including location map on endpapers), bibliography and index, 288 pp, red boards in d/w, d/w a little rubbed at edges, top and base of spine of covers a trifle rubbed, otherwise in very good condition, Ad. Donker 1979

21.9 x 14.5 cm, 760g, ISBN 0 94993 765 7

The battalion is the 1st of the 24th Regiment of Foot.  Success in earlier wars against the native population had, the author says, “resulted in a euphoric overestimation of the potency of infantry armed with the Martini-Henry rifle”.  See the description (below) from the dustwrapper flap.

Long out of print.