Swinton (Sir Ernest Dunlop) - THE DEFENCE OF DUFFER’S DRIFT

A few experiences in Field Defence for detached posts which may prove useful in our next war.

By Backsight Forethought

Reprinted for the United Service Magazine.

Thirty-second thousand. 39 pages,7 maps, green cloth binding faded along the edges and on the spine, titled gilt on the upper cover, a good copy.

Pasted onto the front paste down end paper is an obituary of Maj. Gen. Swinton extracted from the Rand Daily Mail dated 18 January 1950.

The Defence of Duffer's Drift was first published in 1904 when Swinton was a field officer in the British Army. It appeared in the British United Service Magazine under the pseudonym, Lieutenant N. Backsight Forethought ("BF"), who is the narrator of the book. The book is an exploration of small unit tactics in a fictional encounter in the Second Boer War. Swinton was a captain of the Royal Engineers in South Africa during the Boer War,[2][3] and the book "embodies some recollections of things actually done and undone in South Africa, 1899–1902."
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