Eyre & Spottiswoode,
Government and General Publishers,
And AGENTS TO THE NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT,
EAST HARDING STREET, LONDON, E.C.
Demy 8vo., cloth, 15s.
SOUDAN CAMPAIGN, HISTORY of the. By Col. H. E. Colville, C.B., Grenadier Guards. Compiled in the Intelligence Division of the War Office. In two parts, with case of Maps. Part I. contains the Events leading up to the Nile Expedition, and its History to the Departure of the Desert Column from Korti. Part II., from the Departure of the Desert Column to the conclusion of the Campaign.
“Whatever may be thought of general history, there is no doubt that military history is written with a definite object. The soldier studies a past campaign in order the better to be able to conduct a future one.... For the soldier Colonel Colville’s book is a mine of valuable information. Its military lessons are summoned up in one word—transport. From Cairo to Khartoum is 1000 miles in a straight line, and 1400 miles by the Nile. The country affords no supplies. The problem, therefore, was to move a small army to within a practicable distance of Khartoum in such a way that it may be fed during its advance, and when at its destination may still have stores to last for some time. The official history shows how this problem was solved, and how infinitely difficult it was. The British army never came out more brilliantly from any trial than from this contest with the wilderness.”—Manchester Guardian.
Crown 8vo., cloth, 8s.
MANUAL FOR ARMY MEDICAL SERVICES. By W. E. Riordan,
Surgeon-Major, Medical Staff.