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Featherstone, Donald
MacDonald of the 42nd ( 42nd Royal Highlanders / The Black Watch )
London: Seeley and Service, 1971, 1st Edition, 1st Printing
085422016x / 9780854220168
First Edition
Hard Cover
Near Fine
Very Good+ Ian McCausland Cover Art
-----------hardcover, a Near Fine copy in a Very Good+ dustjacket, 237 pages, b&w photos, ----""Born into a family of six brothers, Hector MacDonald lived beneath the shadow of the 42nd Royal Highlanders, the Black Watch. Four of his brothers were already serving when at the age of 14 he ran away with his remaining brother to join the Regiment -- the beginning of a long and varied career. Donald Featherstone has reconstructed from contemporary accounts of the Regiment and histories of the Army, the life of a Highlander in the mid nineteenth century. Among some old records of the Bristol docks, Featherstone found a letter from MacDonald asking his employer in the docks for a better rate of pay and giving his life history. MacDonald, accord ing to the letter saw service in the Crimean War, where he was wounded, and in the Indian mutiny serving with the Highland Brigade under the distinguished Sir Colin Campbell. He left the Army, emigrated to America and fought in the Civil War, returning to Bristol to work as a docker, dying in poverty while struggling to keep his wife and family. Around this tenuous thread Featherstone has wound a delightful but wholly credible story. MacDonald is brought to life and shown to us as a man of character and stern duty, tough yet feeling. By dint of exhaustive research the author has backed MacDonald's life with fact giving the old warrior the dignity and pride denied him by his age - and by his employer."----, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo
147556
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14.25 CDN
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