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Excerpt from In the Ranks of the C. I. V: A Narrative and Diary of Personal Experiences With the C. I. V. Battery (Honourable Artillery Company) In South Africa A wintry ride - Retrospect - Embarkation - A typical day - "Stables" in rough weather - Las Palmas - The tropics - Inoculation - Journalism - Fashions - "Intelligent anticipation" - Stable-guard - Arrival. With some who left for the War it was "roses, roses, all the way." For us, the scene was the square of St. John's Wood Barracks at 2 A.M. on the 3rd of February, a stormy winter's morning, with three inches of snow on the ground, and driving gusts of melting flakes lashing our faces. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Book category Books in English Children's, Teenage & educational Children's / Teenage fiction & true stories

• Full title: In the Ranks of the C. I. V
• Subtitle: A Narrative and Diary of Personal Experiences with the C. I. V. Battery (Honourable Artillery Company) in South Africa (Classic Reprint)
• Author: Erskine Childers
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 324
• EAN: 9781451019049
• ISBN: 9781451019049
• ID: 09863867
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 435 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. July 2015

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