The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War, with Maps, Plans, Etc. (Nelson Shilling Library)

383 pp. 6 5/16 x 4 7/16. 12mo. Original blue cloth, gilt titles. Six maps, including two fold-outs, frontispiece of Major-General Sir Bindon Blood, commander of the Malakand Field Force. Winston Churchill's first book, The Story of the Malakand Field Force is his first-hand account as a second lieutenant in the British relief force at Malakand South, and the fight against India's Pashtun tribesmen, who laid siege to the British garrison in India's North West Frontier Province. This is the fourth edition of this work, after the release of the 1898 original and the 1899 second edition. It follows the text of the 1899 edition, but omits the preface to the second edition. Woods A1(c).