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. _TIMES._--'It is not without significance that this excellent "Story of the Great War," at once popular in the best sense, well informed, full of instruction, and very attractively written, should be the work of a Colonial writer.' _GUARDIAN._--'Mr. Fitchett has achieved a real success, and the boy who cannot read these volumes with pleasure (and profit) is hopeless. They are, if boyhood would but see it, more enthralling than half the novels published.' Fights for the Flag. SECOND EDITION. With 16 Portraits, 13 Plans, and a Facsimile Letter of the Duke of Marlborough. Crown 8vo. 6_s._ _SPECTATOR._--'"Fights for the Flag" is as good as "Deeds that Won the Empire." To say more than this in praise of the book before us is unnecessary, for "Deeds that Won the Empire" was one of the best collection of popular battle studies ever given to the public.' _REVIEW OF REVIEWS._--'As a gift-book, or as a book to take up and read at odd moments, or to devour at a prolonged sitting, this book has few equals, and will probably equal or eclipse the popularity of its predecessors.' Deeds that Won the Empire. SEVENTEENTH EDITION. With 16 Portraits and 11 Plans. Crown 8vo. 6_s._ _SPECTATOR._--'Not since Macaulay ceased to write has English literature produced a writer capable of infusing such life and vigour into historical scenes. The wholesome and manly tone of Mr. Fitchett's book is specially satisfactory.... The book cannot but take the reader by storm wherever it finds him.' _TIMES._--'"Deeds that Won the Empire" is admirably conceived and written. Wolfe's striking feat of arms at Quebec, Hawke's splendid victory in Quiberon Bay, Busaco, Albuera, the Nile, the action of the _Shannon_ and _Chesapeake_, with other memorable fights by sea and land, are vividly described. Mr. Fitchett has not sacrificed historical accuracy to dramatic effect, and his words ring true.' Wellington's Men: some Soldier-Autobiographies. ['Kincaid's Adventures in the Rifle Brigade'; 'Rifleman Harris'; Anton's 'Military Life'; Mercer's 'Waterloo.'] Edited by W. H. FITCHETT, B.A., LL.D. Crown 8vo. 6_s._ _SPECTATOR._--'Mr. Fitchett has ere this sounded the clarion and filled the fife to good purpose, but he has never done better work than in rescuing from oblivion the narratives which appear in this volume.... We feel very grateful to Mr. Fitchett for his skilful editing of four stories which ought not to be allowed to die.' Lond
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