Marching to the Drums: Eyewitness Accounts of War from the Kabul Massacre to the Siege of Mafikeng

By: Ian Knight

Book Overview

This text includes accounts focusing on the experience of battle, during such pivotal military events such as the Sikh Wars, the Afghan Wars and the Boer War. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853673722
• ISBN13: 9781853673726
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Greenhill Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

marching to the drums book reveiw

I totally enjoyed this book from front to back.The accounts run smoothley and without interference from the author, breifly before each eyewitness there is a detaled explanation of the campaign involved.all acounts have been taken from an old british magazine so im pretty sure most have not been reprintd in book form before.true accounts from the indian mutiny,maori wars, opium wars,ashanti war, abissinia crimea zulu war and more...totally recomended!!!!Marching to the Drums: Eyewitness Accounts of War from the Charge of the Light Brigade to the Siege of Ladysmith