The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War

by Winston S. Churchill

$1,000 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

First edition

London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1899. Hardcover. This is the first printing of the Silver Library edition of Churchill's first book. The Story of the Malakand Field Force recounts Churchill's experiences while attached to Sir Bindon Blood's punitive expedition on the Northwest Frontier of India in 1897. Publication of the first edition of 1898 was arranged by Churchill's uncle while the author was still in India, resulting in numerous spelling and

• Binding: Hardcover

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