Erskine Childers, the famed author of the classic novel of sailing and spying The Riddle of the Sands served with London's finestThe City Imperial Volunteers within its artillery armassociated with the Honourable Artillery Company. Childerstogether with his enthusiastic colleagues from the professions of the city were keen to fight the Boers of South Africa and he has written an engaging and detailed account of his time with the regiment during the war. It is written in an easy informal styleof the kind that has ensured that his better known writing has endured for over a centuryas he takes the reader through training to experiences on the battlefield itself.
