Hardcover, black cloth cover, entitled "The King's African Rifles - A Study in the Military History of East and Central Africa, 1890-1945", by Lieutenant-Colonel H. Moyse-Bartlett, M.B.E. (Mil.), M.A. (Oxon.), Ph.D. (London), first published in October 1956, printed and bound in Great Britain by Gale and Polden Limited at their Wellington Press at Aldershot, Hants. It is signed by the previous owner and dated in black ink "A.A. Mackie / 23/3/57" (March 23, 1957) and stamped in black ink "KAFUE NATIONAL PARK / NAMWALA / N. RHODESIA" on the endpaper on the inside front cover, along with being stamped with the previous owner's name "A.A. MACKIE" and "KAFUE NATIONAL PARK / NAMWALA / N. RHODESIA" in black ink on page i. It begins with a Foreword by General George Giffard, G.C.B., D.S.O., followed by a Table of Contents, a List of 40 Illustrations, A List of 47 Maps and Sketches, a List of 11 Folded Maps, an Acknowledgements and an Introduction. It is divided into five parts which contains twenty-six chapters: Part I - The Campaigns of the Early Regiments, with four chapters (1 - The Political Background; 2 - The Central Africa Regiment; 3 - The Uganda Rifles; 4 - The East Africa Rifles); Part II - The Consolidation of the Regiment, 1901-1914, with five chapters (5 - Formation and Organization, 1901-02; 6 - Dispositions and Establishments; 7 - Campaigns Against the Mad Mullah of Somaliland; 8 - Tribal Expeditions in East Africa; 9 - Tribal Expeditions in Uganda); Part III - The East Africa Campaign, 1914-1918, with four chapters (10 - The Defence of the Uganda Railway, August, 1914 - February, 1916; 11 - The Invasion of German East Africa, March - September, 1916; 12 - The Expulsion of the Enemy From German Territory, October, 1916 - November, 1917; 13 - The Pursuit Through Portuguese East Africa, November, 1917 - November, 1918); Part IV - Internal Security and Reorganization, 1914-1939, with three chapters (14 - The End of the Mad Mullah; 15 - Internal Security, 1914-30; 16 - Dispositions and Establishments, 1919-39); Part V - The War of 1939-1945, with ten chapters (17 - The Defence of Kenya, 1939-40; 18 - The Defence of British Somaliland, June - August, 1940; 19 - The Advance to Addis Ababa, January - April, 1941; 20 - Operations in the South and West, January - July, 1941; 21 - Operations in the North and East, April, 1941 - December, 1942; 22 - Reorganization and Development within the Command, 1942-44; 23 - The Campaign in Madagascar, 1942; 24 - The Campaign in Burma: Operations of 11 (E.A.) Division, August - December, 1944; 25 - The Campaign in Burma: Operations of 28 (E.A.) Brigade and 22 (E.A.) Brigade, January - November, 1945; 26 - The First Fifty Years). It concludes with seven Appendices (A - Uniforms; B - Bands; C - Medals; D - Inspectors-General; E - Statistics of the East Africa Campaign, 1914-18; F - K.A.R. Battalions: War of 1939-45; G - Select Bibliography), a Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations and a nine page Index. The book contains 746 pages of text on a white paper stock, complemented by forty illustrations on a semi-coated paper stock, along with forty-seven pull-out maps on a thin white paper stock, all of which are printed in black ink, weighing 1.8 kilograms, measuring 155 mm (w) x 245 mm (h) x 50 mm (d). The cover has experienced age soiling and wear, with a tear present where the spine butts the back cover, moisture damage evident on the inside covers and the pages adjacent to them, foxing and red ink on the edges of the pages. Fair.
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