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Hero of the empire : the Boer War, a daring escape and the making of Winston Churchill
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385535748
- ISBN: 0385535740
- ISBN: 0385535732 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780385535731 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
xi, 381 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2016]
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Author of Destiny of the Republic and The River of Doubt"--Dust jacket. Maps inside front and back covers. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-363) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Pushful, the younger. Death by inches ; The graven palm ; The scion ; Blowing the trumpet -- Into Africa. "Send her victorious" ; "We have now gone far enough" ; The blackest of all days ; Land of stone and scrub -- Chance. The death trap ; A pity and a blunder ; Into the lion's jaws ; Grim sullen death -- Prisoners of war. To submit, to obey, to endure ; "I regret to inform you" ; A city of the dead ; Black week ; A scheme of desperate and magnificent audacity ; "I shall go on alone" -- In the heart of enemy's country. Toujours de l'audace ; "To take my leave" ; Alone ; "Wie is daar?" ; An invisible enemy ; The light of hope ; The plan ; The red and the blue. |
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| Subject: | South African War, 1899-1902 Prisoners and prisons, British South African War, 1899-1902 Participation, British Churchill, Winston 1874-1965 Military leadership |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Etna Library | 968.048 MIL | 31257000252857 | Adult collection | Available | - |
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