9780312182717-0312182716-Warrior: The Legend Of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen

Warrior: The Legend Of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen

ISBN-13: 9780312182717
ISBN-10: 0312182716
Edition: First Edition
Author: Peter Hathaway Capstick, Fiona Capstick
Publication date: 1998
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover 320 pages
FREE US shipping on ALL non-marketplace orders
Rent
35 days
from $24.98 USD
FREE shipping on RENTAL RETURNS
Marketplace
from $11.00 USD
Buy

From $11.00

Rent

From $24.98

Book details

ISBN-13: 9780312182717
ISBN-10: 0312182716
Edition: First Edition
Author: Peter Hathaway Capstick, Fiona Capstick
Publication date: 1998
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover 320 pages

Summary

Warrior: The Legend Of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen (ISBN-13: 9780312182717 and ISBN-10: 0312182716), written by authors Peter Hathaway Capstick, Fiona Capstick, was published by St. Martin's Press in 1998. With an overall rating of 3.8 stars, it's a notable title among other Africa (Historical, Middle East) books. You can easily purchase or rent Warrior: The Legend Of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Africa books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.31.

Description

Peter Hathaway Capstick died in 1996. At the time of his death, the world-renowned adventure writer was putting the finishing touches on this, a stirring and vivid biography of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, a man with whom he felt he had much in common. Edited and prepared for publication by his widow, Fiona Capstick, Warrior is Capstick’s riveting farewell to his fans and the final addition to the bestselling Peter Capstick Library.

Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen was one of those rare men whom fate always seems to cast in the dramas that shape history. As a young officer, he served in India and Africa during the glory days of the British Empire, defending the crown’s dominions and exploring its darkest reaches. His exploits in the bloody colonial wars of turn-of-the-century East Africa earned him a reputation as one of the most fierce and ruthless soldiers in the Empire, yet it was during those years spent roaming the silent places of the Serengeti, hunting its game and learning its secrets, that Meinertzhagen developed a fascination with Africa that would last a lifetime.

But there were other adventures to come, and Capstick narrates them all with his trademark skill and wit: daring commando raids against German forces in Africa and the Mideast during World War I, covert missions to the USSR and Nazi Germany between the wars, work as an OSS agent during World War II, and Meinertzhagen’s ceaseless support of Israeli nationhood are all woven together into an epic adventure. Warrior: The Legend of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen is a powerful chronicle that follows the tracks of a twentieth-century icon.

Rate this book Rate this book

We would LOVE it if you could help us and other readers by reviewing the book