Younghusband - The last great imperial adventurer by Patrick French
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biographies and memoirs
Soldier, explorer, mystic, guru, and spy, Francis Younghusband began his colonial career as a military adventurer and became a radical visionary who preached free love to his followers.Patrick French's award-winning biography traces the unpredictable life of the maverick with the "damned rum name," who ...Show more
War-Path and Bivouac: or The Conquest of the Sioux by John F. Finerty; Oliver Knight (Introduction by); Charles E. Rankin (Foreword by)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Empire Wars | Series: Western Frontier Library
War-Path and Bivouac is a stirring and detailed account of the Dakota Indian wars of 1876 and the Nez Perce Indian wars of 1877. John F. Finerty, a newspaper reporter with the Chicago Times, covered the action of George Crook's campaign against the Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indians and Nelson Miles ca ...Show more
Small Wars - Their Principles and Practices by C. E. Callwell
$75.00 NZD
Category: Military theory and general reference
The Scramble for Africa, 1876-1912 by Thomas Pakenham
$18.00 NZD
Category: Empire Wars
The Scramble for Africa astonished everyone. In 1880 most of the continent was ruled by Africans, and barely explored. By 1902, five European Powers (and one extraordinary individual) had grabbed almost the whole continent, giving themselves 30 new colonies and protectorates and 10 million square miles ...Show more
Soldier Sahibs by Charles Allen
$15.00 NZD
Category: Empire Wars
Gripping, colourful narrative history about a handful of heroes of the Raj during its heyday, 1839
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