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To Kumassi with Scott   Book Summary Foreword Ch 1: From Folkestone to Liverpool Ch 2: Liverpool to Cape Coast Ch 3: Of Customs and Culture Ch 4: At Cape Coast Castle Ch 5: Final Preparations Ch 6: The March Begins Ch 7: Of Tribes, Kings & Palavers Ch 8: In Camp at Prahsu Ch 9: Over the Prah Ch 10: A Treaty with the Bekwai Ch 11: Into Ashanti Treaty Ch 12: Kumassi at Last Ch 13: The Killing Fields Ch 14: Prempeh's Submission Ch 15: Of Sacrifice and Execution Ch 16: The Coastward March

Under Three Flags in Cuba   Book Summary Foreword Ch 1: Landing in Cuba Ch 2: Through the Spanish Lines Ch 3: Wounded: Captured: Released Ch 4: Of Life and Politics in Havana Ch 5: Evangelina Cisneros Ch 6: The Downfall of Weyler Ch 7: A Trip Across Cuba Ch 8: The Insurgent Government Ch 9: To Havana for Garcia Ch 10: Arrest: Imprisoned: Deported Ch 11: To Cuba Again Ch 12: The Battle for San Juan Ch 13: To Santiago Ch 14: The Capitulation Ch 15: A Retrospect

In South Africa with Buller   Book Summary Foreword Ch 1: An Ultimatum from the Transvaal Ch 2: The Opening of Hostilities Ch 3: Defeat at Dundee & the Seige of Ladysmith Ch 4: General Buller arrives at Capetown Ch 5: To Eastcourt with Winston Churchill Ch 6: The Developing Politics of Dying Ch 7: With General Buller at the Front Ch 8: Downfall of a Commander Ch 9: Lord Roberts - the New Commander Ch 10: The Battle for Spion Kop Ch 11: Ladysmith and Kimberley Relieved Afterword Supplement: Webster Davis

The Peking Legations   Book Summary Foreword Ch 1: From Honeymoon to Hell Ch 2: Life and Death Decisions Ch 3: Life inside the Legations Ch 4: Escape from Peking

Under Four Flags for France   Book Summary Foreword Ch 1: The Belgian Prelude Ch 2: On to France Ch 3: The Allies Strike Back Ch 4: A Personal View in Picardy Ch 5: German Flood Flows North Ch 6: The Front in Flanders Ch 7: A Time of Deadlock Ch 8: The Battles of 1915 Ch 9: The Attack on Verdun Ch 10: The Somme Offensive Ch 11: The Hindenburg Line Ch 12: The Chemin des Dames Ch 13: Belgium, 1917 14: The United States Steps In

Cuba - Land of Opportunity   Book Summary Foreword Ch 1: The Need for British Enterprise Ch 2: Cuba’s Part in the War Ch 3: British Trade with Cuba Ch 4: Some Significant Statistics Ch 5: Characteristics of Cuba Ch 6: Cuba’s Natural Resources Ch 7: Provincial Descriptions Ch 8: The Culture of Cuba

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