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In the Ranks of the C.I.V.

By Erskine Childers

2020-04-20 19:13:37

Erskine Childers, the famed author of the classic novel of sailing and spying The Riddle of the Sands served with London's finest-The City Imperial Volunteers within its artillery arm-associated with the Honourable Artillery Company. Childers-togethe ... Read more
Erskine Childers, the famed author of the classic novel of sailing and spying The Riddle of the Sands served with London's finest-The City Imperial Volunteers within its artillery arm-associated with the Honourable Artillery Company. Childers-together with his enthusiastic colleagues from the professions of the city were keen to fight the Boers of South Africa and he has written an engaging and detailed account of his time with the regiment during the war. It is written in an easy informal style-of the kind that has ensured that his better known writing has endured for over a century-as he takes the reader through training to experiences on the battlefield itself. Less

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File size200.12 KB
Print pages272
PublisherPublic Domain Book
Publication date2017-05-26
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1862270534
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Erskine Childers
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Robert Erskine Childers DSC (25 June 1870 – 24 Nov 1922), universally known as Erskine Childers, was a British-born Irish writer, whose works included the influential novel The Riddle of the Sands. ...

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