BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE - George Alfred Henty, war correspondent and author, was born at Trumpington, near Cambridge, on December 8,1832. He was educated at Westminster School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Leaving Cambridge without a degree, he went to the Crimea during the war with Russia and served in the purveyors department of the army. On being invalided honle he was appointed purveyor to the forces, and in 1869 he went to Italy to organize the hospitals of the Italian legion. After his return he held similar home appointmerits for a time, but he resigned his commission later and engaged in mining operations in Wales and Sardinia. In 1866 he began his career as war correspondent for the Standard newspaper, and in this capacity went through the Austro- Italian, Abyssinian, Franco-German, Ashan, and Turco- Servian campaigns. He was also in Paris during the Commune, and he accompanied Edward VII when, as Prince of Wales, he visited India. He described tro of these campaigns in The MLCYL to Mugdaln 1868 and The lst March to Coonzassie 1874. His death took place on his yacht in Weymouth harbour on November 16, 1902.... Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are now republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.