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The Defence of Duffer's Drift

The book is a a series of six dreams by the author about the defence of a river crossing in the Boer War. The infantry tactics in the early dreams are disastrous, but each time author learns something until in the final defence he is successful.

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  • Pages: 78 | Size: 5.5 * 8.5
  • 9789385505041 • Hardback • 42170 • Rs.295
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Major General Sir Ernest Dunlop Swinton KBE, CB, DSO was a British Army officer who was active in the development and adoption of the tank during the First World War. He is credited with having coined the word tank as a code-name for the first tracked, armoured fighting vehicles.