Buy this book on-line MEREDITH,JOHN: : OMDURMAN DIARIES 1898: Eyewitness Accounts of the Legendary CampaignUK.BARNSLEY,SOUTH YORKS.LEO COOPER,1998. ISBN 0850526078.
UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,
glossy alminated,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork ('The 21st Lancers Charge at Omdurman',Rawlinson {Queen's Royal Lancers Museum]) with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,solid,sound and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly an unread example? The bottom lower corner of pp193/4s' page edge,has a diagonal tear with a small portion of the page's corner missing - the text is unaffected.Bright,
crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original,plain
dark brown cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white eps.UK,slim 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,viiixi+1-212pp includes
acknowledgements,glossary,b/w maps/illus dispersed throughout the book and the text,9 chapters+epilogue,8pp
b/w contemporary photographs/illus,in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece between pp52/3 and pp84/5 respectively,a biblio and an index.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,c
ontents list/table,foreword by Henry Keown-Boyd,and author's note.
Although this book is made up of extracts from the diaries of four men who took part in the Sudan Expedition of 1898 it does not purport to be just another version of a story that has been told many,many
times.The main contributor is one Private Teigh who served in the Lincolnshire Regiment.His account of the
campaign had been faithfully preserved by his family and
unread by any of them until his grandson decided to take
it to school and show it to his teacher.Anxious to find out more about the writer,the teacher took it to the Regimental Museum where he was delighted to find other unpublished accounts of the campaign - but written by officers.By skilfully knitting these into Teigh's narrative,John Meredith,gives us a unique view of life in the British Army at the end of the Victorian era as seen from opposite ends of the social spectrum.
A hundred years and two world wars have so dramatically
altered the relationship between officers and other ranks that it is now hard to envisage the immense gulf which then separated them.So,though adding,as it certainly does,new glimpses of one of the swiftest,
strangest and most successful of 'Queen Victoria's
Little Wars',this book is more essentially a contribution to social history of great importance.It is
probably true to say that never before has such a juxtaposition of views of the same events been brought together.
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