IAN HAMILTON'S MARCH. Together with extracts from the diary of Lieutenant H. Franklin, a prisoner of war at Pretoria.

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London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1900. First edition. 8vo. 409pp with 32pp. of advertisements. Frontispiece portrait of Ian Hamilton from a picture by John S. Sargent. 9 maps, folding colour map at end. Dark russet cloth, gilt. Black endpapers. A near fine copy with the spine lettering bright. Ian Hamilton's March describes Winston Churchill's experiences accompanying the British army during the Second Boer War, continuing with the events described in "London to Ladysmith via Pretoria". The principal event deals with the march of Lt. General Hamilton's column on the flank of Lord Robert's main army on the way to Pretoria. Churchill had officially resigned from the British army in order to pursue a political career, but on hearing of the outbreak of war in South Africa between the British colonies and the free Boer states of Transvaal and Orange Free State, immediately made arrangements to take part. He arranged to act as correspondent for The Morning Post, and by playing them off against the rival newspaper, the Daily Mail, obtained a salary of £250 per month. The book is an edited collection of reports originally published in a newspaper. Returning from the war, Churchill arranged to publish them as a collection and the book appeared in May 1900 published by Longmans and eventually sold 8,000 copies. In 1930 Churchill produced an autobiography, "My Early Life", which also had several chapters devoted to his Boer War experiences. N° de ref. del artículo 009438

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