Ladysmith and Lydenburg. Anglo-Boer War letters of Alfred Markham
by Christison, Grant (editor)
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- Paperback
- Signed
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- ISBN 10
- 0958305137
- ISBN 13
- 9780958305136
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(Pietermaritzburg: the editor, 1993) 0-9583051-3-7. 225 x 145 mm; card wraps; pp. 20. Edition limited to 200 copies. Very good condition. Letters of Alfred Markham written to his cousin, Guy. "The first letter, written over a period of one month, covers the siege [of Ladysmith]. The second letter, written after the siege had been lifted, was sent from Intombi Camp, situated beside the railway four miles south-east of Ladysmith. By agreement between General White and Boer Commandant-General Joubert, the first sick and wounded had been permitted to leave Ladysmith for Intombi Camp on Sunday, November 5. It was here that Alfred Markham was treated for enteric fever before being invalided back to England. After a period of some months' convalescence, he returned to South Africa, where he joined his company in the Eastern Transvaal. The third and fourth letters, addressed from Lydenburg and Middelburg, cover this period. It was in Middelburg that the first (unsuccessful) peace negotiations, between Lord Kitchener and General Louis Botha, took place in February 1902. Peace was finally signed in Pretoria on May 31 1902." - From Introduction. .
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- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5355
- Title
- Ladysmith and Lydenburg. Anglo-Boer War letters of Alfred Markham
- Author
- Christison, Grant (editor)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0958305137
- ISBN 13
- 9780958305136
- Publisher
- (Pietermaritzburg: the editor, 1993) 0-9583051-3-7
- Place of Publication
- Pietermaritzburg
- This edition first published
- 1993
- Keywords
- Military History. Siege of Ladysmith. 2nd Rifle Brigade. Anglo-Boer War
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anglo-Boer War;
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