Brig General Crowe (19 results)

Condition: New. 2004 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1918). SB. xxi + 280pp with 4 maps. Published Price £18 The career of Jan Smuts is one of the most remarkable military and political stories of the 20th century. A gifted guerilla commander against the British in the Boer War; by 1914 Smuts was happy to stand with the British as head of a large army fighting to conquer German East Africa (today's Tanzania). Sadly the campaign was not one of his finest hours. Both the text of this book, and Smuts' own somewhat defensive introduction, gives a good idea of why the resourceful German commander, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, was able to run rings round the superior allied forces trying to trap him. Lettow and his staff, and their small army of trained native Africans, the 'Askaris', knew the lie of the land and were able to live off it. The allied frustration, as they repeatedly tracked and attacked him, only to find Lettow melting away to fight another day, is palpable. Evcentually, the allies, at enormous cost, succeeded in conquering the territory and forcing Lettow into neighbouring areas, but the 1918 Armistice found him still at liberty and with his force intact. By then Smuts had long departed. It is pleasant to record that Smuts ended his career as a valued member of Churchill's War Cabinet and South African Prime Minister, and that in the hungry months for Germany that followed the Second World War he was able to supply his old opponent, Lettow, with food parcels. Illustrated with a photograph of Smuts and four maps. Book.…

Condition: New. 2004 N&M Press reprint (original pub 1918). HB. xxi + 280pp with 4 maps. The career of Jan Smuts is one of the most remarkable military and political stories of the 20th century. A gifted guerilla commander against the British in the Boer War; by 1914 Smuts was happy to stand with the British as head of a large army fighting to conquer German East Africa (today's Tanzania). Sadly the campaign was not one of his finest hours. Both the text of this book, and Smuts' own somewhat defensive introduction, gives a good idea of why the resourceful German commander, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, was able to run rings round the superior allied forces trying to trap him. Lettow and his staff, and their small army of trained native Africans, the 'Askaris', knew the lie of the land and were able to live off it. The allied frustration, as they repeatedly tracked and attacked him, only to find Lettow melting away to fight another day, is palpable. Evcentually, the allies, at enormous cost, succeeded in conquering the territory and forcing Lettow into neighbouring areas, but the 1918 Armistice found him still at liberty and with his force intact. By then Smuts had long departed. It is pleasant to record that Smuts ended his career as a valued member of Churchill's War Cabinet and South African Prime Minister, and that in the hungry months for Germany that followed the Second World War he was able to supply his old opponent, Lettow, with food parcels. Illustrated with a photograph of Smuts and four maps. Book.…

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Condition: New. In English.

1st edn 2nd printing. 8vo. Original black lettered red cloth (casing with slight lean and spine faded), no dustwrapper. Pp. xvii + 280, illus with b&w frontispiece plate with tissue-guard and b&w folding maps (some pages tanned and spotted; previous owner's neat inscription on front paste-down, pencil marks in margins and pencil notes on recto of rear free endpaper). …

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A good copy in red cloth lettered in gilt on spine and in black on upper board. Spine a little faded. Gift inscription on front end-paper. Pp.xxiii,280. Frontispiece. Four folding maps. Introduction by General Smuts. The author commanded the Royal Artillery and accompanied Smuts throughout his East African campaign.…

Cloth, Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. General Smuts in his introduction states that General Crowe brings unusual qualifications to the task as he was in command of the Royal Artillery in East Africa during the period covered by this book and in that capacity accompanied me in the field throughout the campaign. xvii, 280pp with four folding maps. Lacks front end paper and with partial loss to lower end paper. Some random light foxing. Size: 225x150mm.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. The first edition of this account of General Smuts' East African Campaign of 1916. Illustrated with four folding maps. The first edition, first impression of this work. An account by Brig. General J. H. V. Crowe of the 1916 East African Campaign, a series of battles and guerrilla actions which started in German East Africa and spread to Portuguese Mozambique, Northern Rhodesia, British East Africa, the Uganda Protectorate, and the Belgian Congo, until German troops surrendered in 1918 after confirmation of the armistice that ended the First World War. The troops were personally led by Field Marshal Jan Smuts.With an introduction by J. C. Smuts himself.Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, and four folding maps. Collated, complete.Held in a laminated hand-made protective dust wrapper, with typed title to the back strip. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with fading to spine. Boards bright. Held in a laminated hand-made dust wrapper, with typed title to the back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean, with the odd spot. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

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