MARCHING TO THE DRUMS: Eyewitness Accounts of Battle from the Crimea to the Siege of Mafeking

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This collection of first-hand accounts, originally featured in turn-of-the-century magazine that was popular during the heyday of empire, provide a vivid and sometimes shocking insight into the brutal realities of warfare for the 19th Century British imperial soldier. Includes cavalry charges at Balaklava and Omdurman, overwhelming odds at Rorke's Drift, and pivotal conflicts as the Sikh Wars, the Crimean War, the Afghan Wars, the Anglo-Zulu War, China, the Sudan, and South Africa.