Asked by the Union government to write the official history, John Buchan follows the South African Infantry Brigade from its raising through a desert campaign in western Egypt to the Western Front: Delville Wood on the Somme, the Butte de Warlencourt, Arras, Third Ypres and the German offensive of 1918.
Military history written with a novelist’s narrative drive by the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps. Download the free EPUB.