Description
Title: The Cameliers
Author: Hogue, Oliver
Condition: Good
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Date: 1919
ISBN: N/A
Cover: Hard Cover without Dust Jacket – 280 pages
Comments: A classic account of the Australians of the Imperial Camel Corps During the First World War in the Middle East.
The famous camel borne infantry of the Middle East campaigns.
Oliver Hogue’s account of the Imperial Camel Corps in action during the desert and Palestine campaigns of the First World War is one of the first books written on the subject shortly after the events themselves took place. Hogue was a serving Australian soldier with the unit and so had the advantage of witnessing the events portrayed here at first hand. His is an easy reading, personable and journalistic style-very much of its day—which weaves a romance into this story of war against the declining Ottoman Turkish Empire and it’s German allies.
Wear and tear at spine with 5cm tear along edge. Binding a little slack else a good copy of a now very scarce 1st edition unit history title.
