With The Flag To Pretoria. AND; After Pretoria: The Guerilla War. A History of the Boer War of 1899-1900. And Supplement. Forming Four Volumes of The Complete Work. Bound in Three Vols.

London, Harmsworth Brothers, 1901-2. 1st editions.. Three Volumes. Large hardback, 13 x 10 inches. Halfbound maroon morocco leather to spines and corners, with maroon cloth to boards. Gilt lettering and decorations to spines and fronts. Red speckled page edges. Yellow/brown endpapers. In very good condition. Some rubbing to leather on spines and corners, corners and ends of spines nicked. Some minor handling marks to cloths on boards, some minor stains to front of pt.1, Guerilla War. Binders labels to endpapers “S.C. Nutt, Taunton.” Some minor light foxing to halftitle in vol.1. with minor stain to edge of first map. Some occasional handling/thumb marks to pages. Else pages all very clean and tight throughout. Else a very good clean and tight set. 3 vols: 716pp + 528 to 1008pp. Vol.1 with 2 large fold-out coloured maps, Many B&W photographs and illustrations, maps and plans throughout text. The story of the Boer War. The preface discusses the effects on the war of the development of smokeless powder and smaller bore ammunition in producing more casualties but fewer deaths. The British Army was completely unprepared for the experience of receiving fire from unknown positions and had to revise tactics to deal with a new way of fighting. The book gives some of the causes of the war, traces its development and progress and discusses the leadership. A final chapter considers lessons to be learned.