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Guide
to Books written by Sir Winston Churchill
LONDON
TO LADYSMITH |
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TO LADYSMITH VIA PRETORIA is another Churchill thriller
that includes the famous story of his escape from the
Boers. It is the first of two books resulting from his
despatches from the Boer War in South Africa. The British
first edition was issued in a light tan cloth
decorated in red, black, and gold with a drawing of the
armoured train and is almost never seen in truly fine
condition. There was a second impression a few months
later that looks exactly the same and as prices rise on
decent firsts, this represents an opportunity to have
a first-like copy at a reasonable cost. A USA
edition was issued in a plain coarse red cloth.
There is also a very scarce Canadian
edition. This title has not been reprinted
since 1900 other than a facsimile
edition published in South Africa in 1982,
so even reading copies are hard to find. There is now
a new release called "THE BOER WAR" which contains
this text plus Ian Hamilton's March, published by Leo
Cooper in 1989, with a US
version from Norton, now out of print but still
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