Author: BIRDWOOD, FIELD-MARSHAL LORD
Title: Khaki and Gown.
Description: London : Ward Lock & Co, 1942.. An Autobiography. With a Foreword by the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill. First reprint (Feb. 1942) of Dec. 1941 1st. 456 p., num. b/w plates, port. frontis., col. (fold.) maps , index, gloss. HARDCOVER: (Orig. blue cloth with .gilt titling, name on end paper, else VERY GOOD) ¶ The author served with Bengal Lancers in India and fought in the Boer War (1899-1902), serving with Winston Churchill. He comments on Spion Kop and the relief of Ladysmith, and then on his World War I (Gallipoli and Passchendaele) and his life after the war.

Keywords: India South Africa France Military history Boer War First World War


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