![]() ![]() In the same year, the commission arising in part because of the success of this novel, Childers contributed the fifth volume to the Times History of the War in South Africa, published by Sampson, Low & Marston under the editorship of Amery - the two men notably disagreeing on Childers' assessment of Lord Milner, leading to a disclaimer in his Preface having been overruled by Amery. Childers and Amery, at this point a journalist and later a Conservative politician, lived near one another in Chelsea, and were introduced by Eddie Marsh. ![]() Amery, from Erskine Childers, August 1907'. Inscribed by the author on the verso of the flyleaf: 'To L.S. xii, 336,, crown 8vo, original black cloth, vignette to upper board stamped in white, backstrip lettering formerly white but now rubbed away, a little wear at extremities, good. Folded frontispiece map and further full-page map, with 2 full-page charts, one leaf with crease at top corner, pp. ![]()
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