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TOWNSHEND OF KUT: A BIOGRAPHY OF MAJOR-GENERAL SIR CHARLES TOWNSHEND

Written by A.J. Barker
Published by Cassell & Company Ltd in 1967

TOWNSHEND OF KUT: A BIOGRAPHY OF MAJOR-GENERAL SIR CHARLES TOWNSHEND
Written by A.J. Barker.
Stock no. 1828493
1st. 1967. Hardback. Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.

Orange cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos and maps. Lower edge of b oards lightly rubbed. Light vertical crease to spine. Foxing to text block. Includes a relevant newspaper cutting. Orange pictorial dustwrapper is faded and grubby, edge-rubbed.

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Cover of TOWNSHEND OF KUT: A BIOGRAPHY OF MAJOR-GENERAL SIR CHARLES TOWNSHEND by A.J. Barker

Contents

  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1 Early Days
  • 2 The Desert Column
  • 3 India and the North-West Frontier
  • 4 Chitral
  • 5 Return to the Sudan
  • 6 The Boer War and Service in England
  • 7 Eleven Years of Peacetime Soldiering
  • 8 Mesopotamia: Townshend's Regatta
  • 9 The Advance to Ctesiphon
  • 10 The Siege of Kut
  • 11 Prisoner of War
  • 12 Soldier to Civilian and Finale
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography
  • index