A SOLDIER'S EXPERIENCE OR A VOICE FROM THE RANKS
Written by T. Gowing
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A SOLDIER'S EXPERIENCE OR A VOICE FROM THE RANKS
Written by T. Gowing.
Stock no. 1828490
1896.
Hardback.
Very good condition.
Revised and Enlarged edition. Showing the cost of war in blood and treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign, from the standpoint of the ranks; the indian mutiny, and some of its atrocities the Afghan campaigns of 1863. Also Sketches of the lives and deaths of Sir H. Havelock and Captain Hedley Vicars. Together with some things not generally known. Black cloth boards, gilt titles and vignettes. B/w plates. xv and 585 pages. All edges gilt. Board edges rubbed, rear board a little scuffed. Front joint cracked. Belongs to box completed with contemporary signature. Some pencil annotation. Not a bad copy!
Front cover
Contents
- CHAPTER I
- Boyhood
- CHAPTER II
- Disembarkation in the Crimea
- CHAPTER III
- Voyage to Malta
- CHAPTER IV
- More Trench Work
- CHAPTER V
- The Storming of the Town
- CHAPTER VI
- Numerical List of Killed and Wounded in the Various Regiments forming the Crimean Army
- CHAPTER VII
- India - its Extent and Resources
- CHAPTER VIII
- The Task before Sir Colin Campbell
- CHAPTER IX
- List of Battles Fought by Land between 1704 and 1882
- CHAPTER X
- Curious Modes of Recruiting in the "Good old Days"
- CHAPTER XI
- The Great Book
- CHAPTER XII
- General Sir Henry Havelock KCB
- CHAPTER XIII
- Captain Hedley Vicars
- CHAPTER XIV
- The Black Watch
- CHAPTER XV
- The Cost of the War