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WYLLY, H.C., Colonel.
From the Black Mountain to Waziristan.
Being an account of the border countries and the more turbulent of the tribes controlled by the North-west Frontier Province, and of our military relations with them in the past. with an introduction by Lieut.-Gen. Sir Horace L. Smith-Dorrien.
First edition. "This book is the outcome of my own experience of the want of something of the kind in the early autumn of 1897, when the Second Battalion of my old Corps, the Sherwood foresters … was ordered to join the Tirah Expedition … only one or two of the officers, and none of the other ranks, had ever been west of the Indus, and few of us therefore knew anything of the wild men against whom we were to fight, or of the equally wild country in which the operations were to be conducted." (preface) Superbly-written and authoritative account of Indian frontier warfare.
Octavo. Original sand cloth, lettered in black to the spine and in red to the upper board, mulberry edge-stain. Recased, spine relined, new endpapers. 8 folding maps at the rear, one of them coloured. Small circulating library shield to the upper board and bookplate to the front pastedown, a little rubbed, recased as noted, prelims. a touch foxed, but a very good copy.
