Second Hand War Notes: The Diary Of Colonel De Villebois-Mareuil
Author : Colonel Georges de Villebois-Mareuil
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Condition
Fair condition. Original cloth binding with general age-related wear, marking and some soiling to the boards. Front pastedown/endpaper detached but present. Front hinge cracked with webbing exposed and binding shaken, though the text block remains largely intact. Occasional foxing and age toning throughout. Pages remain generally clean and readable. A complete, unrestored example of this increasingly scarce Boer War memoir.
Details
General - Pages : 282 | Images : None; printed text throughout | Publisher : Adam and Charles Black | Place of Publication : London, UK | Language : English
Hardback - Year of Publication : 1901 | Edition : First edition | Size : 198mm x 140mm
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A scarce English edition of War Notes: The Diary of Colonel De Villebois-Mareuil, the personal account of one of the most famous foreign volunteers to fight on the Boer side during the Second Boer War.
Colonel Georges de Villebois-Mareuil was a distinguished French officer who resigned from the French Army to support the Boer Republics against Britain. His diary provides a fascinating first-hand account of military operations, travel through South Africa, observations on both Boer and British forces, and his experiences leading foreign volunteers before his death in action in 1900.
An important contemporary source for collectors of Boer War history and military memoirs.
