TOWNSHEND OF KUT: A BIOGRAPHY OF MAJOR-GENERAL SIR CHARLES TOWNSHEND
Written by A.J. Barker
Published by Cassell & Company Ltd
in 1967
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- MILITARY
- WORLD WAR I
- BIOGRAPHY
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.
Front cover
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