Erskine Childers, Ryan Desmond

War and the Arme Blanche (eBook, ePUB)

With an Excerpt From Remembering Sion By Ryan Desmond

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Robert Erskine Childers (1870-1922) was a British-born Irish writer. In his early career, he was a notable military historian and critic, famously writing an account of the Boer War for which he was a correspondent. In his 1910 work, "War and the Arme Blanche" Childers offers a critique of the cavalry. Employing his personal experiences in the Boer War, he argues that instead of simply having lances, the cavalry should be transformed into mounted infantry complete with swords and carbines. Content includes: "The Issue And Its Importance", "The Threefold Problem", "British And Boer Mounted Troops", "Elandslaagte", "From Elandslaagte To The Black Week", "Colesberg And Kimberley", etc. Other notable works by this author include: "The Riddle of the Sands" (1903) and "The Framework for Home Rule" (1911).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Read Books Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781528789042
• Artikelnr.: 58716382

Autorenporträt

Robert Erskine Childers DSC (25 June 1870 - 24 November 1922), universally known as Erskine Childers, was a British-born Irish writer, whose works included the influential novel The Riddle of the Sands. He became a supporter of Irish Republicanism and smuggled guns into Ireland in his sailing yacht Asgard. He was executed by the authorities of the nascent Irish Free State during the Irish Civil War. He was the son of British Orientalist scholar Robert Caesar Childers; the cousin of Hugh Childers and Robert Barton; and the father of the fourth President of Ireland, Erskine Hamilton Childers.