THE SOUTH AFRICAN FORCES IN FRANCE

First edition: 404 pages, colour frontispiece of Delville Wood, 17 black and white plates, 22 maps, foxing throughout and on the edges, fore edge and bottom edges uncut, blue cloth with gilt vignette on the upper cover, titled gilt on the spine, a good copy in the dust jacket.

From the preface: In the autumn of 1916 I was asked by the Union Government to undertake the official History of the South African Forces in Europe. At the time I was serving in France, and had therefore an opportunity to see something of the Infantry Brigade. My aim has been to tell as simply as possible the story of a great military achievement, to my mind one of the finest in the whole history of the campaigns; and to provide a detailed account of the operations of the infantry and other services. J.B.