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About the product 210 x 297 mm; saddle-stitched pictorial wrappers; unpaginated (but pp. 12, excluding cover); three actual commemorative programmes mounted within, with accompanying text alongside; some illustrations; short history of the regiment; roll of honour for wars from the Anglo-Boer War to South Africa 's border war. Foxed and a little curled. Loosely inserted are several items relating to the Durban Light Infantry, including correspondence from the Col. Cyril Metcalfe, two programmes from Metcalfe's 80th birthday celebration (the cover of which is a Leyden cartoon showing the colonel, in a tank, bearing down on Father Time, and one of which is signed by several regimental luminaries), programmes from the 1989 Officers'Mess Dinner and the Presentation of the National Colour to the regiment in the same year, plus several issues of the DLI Flash newsletter, etc. Books: The Durban Light Infantry. One hundred and twenty-five years of service. Commemorative Brochure. September 1979

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days At Histories of the Unexpected, we believe that everything has a history - even the most unexpected of subjects - and that everything links together in unexpected ways. We believe that the history of the itch, the history of crawling, the history of clouds, or of lightning or of zombies or zebras or holes or perfume or rubbish or mustard - all have fascinating histories of their own. Histories of the Unexpected not only presents a new way of thinking about the past, but also reveals the everyday world around us as never before. Features Summary In this new series of short books under the Histories of the Unexpected brand, Sam Willis and James Daybell take on some of greatest historical subjects but in an entirely unexpected way. Author Sam Willis (Author), James Daybell (Author) Publisher Atlantic Books Release date 20191114 Pages 192 ISBN 1-78649-773-5 ISBN 13 978-1-78649-773-4

 Field Guide to the Battlefields of South Africa - Nicki von der Heyde - Struik - 2014 - Paperback in good condition. There are two major types of battlefield terrain in South Africa: first the open plains and savannah lands of the Highveld, a land where cavalry rules supreme. The second type is the thornbush of the Eastern Cape, a setting more suited to skirmishing rather than set-piece battles. Then, in KwaZulu-Natal, the two terrains merge to create the country s most dramatic battlefield landscape and one of the largest military graveyards in the world where the fates of colonies, republics and kingdoms were decided.For more than two centuries, from the late 1700s to the early 1900s, conflict, in one form or another, swept across this countryside; its combatants as diverse, hardy and tenacious as the land and its resources that almost always was at the root of hostilities.In this groundbreaking book, author and specialist battlefields guide, Nicki von der Heyde, presents over 70 battles and skirmishes covering five wars that shaped the course of South African history from the Frontier Wars that started in 1779 to the Second-Anglo Boer War of 1899 1902, a bitter and costly confrontation triggered by the discovery of the world s richest gold fields on the Witwatersrand.Detailed accounts of the engagements, based on extensive research, are provided, with special attention given to the terrain, key phases and outcomes, and the combatants involved. Battle timelines succinctly set out the passage of each campaign, while international timelines catalogue concurrent events around the world.More than 400 original documentary and contemporary photographs and over 60 short features have been assembled to provide a rich, enthralling and haunting account of these momentous events. Detailed historical maps that include annotations have been created for 16 high-profile engagements, while 10 regional maps indicate the locations of the battle sites. Arranged in regional order, with concise directions to each battle site and GPS coordinates for main locations, the "Field Guide to South Africa s Battlefields" is not only indispensable for professional and amateur military historians, but is of great interest to general readers, too if only as a reminder of the devastating human cost of war and the value of exploring the past to make sense of the present.It is beautifully illustrated with historical and contemporary photographs and detailed battle and regional maps."