Byron Farwell

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Byron Edgar Farwell (20 June 1921 in Manchester, Iowa – 3 August 1999 in Purcellville, Virginia) was an American military historian and biographer. Farwell graduated from Ohio State University and the University of Chicago (M.A., 1968). He served in World War II as a captain of engineers attached to the Mediterranean Allied Air Force in the British Eighth Army area and later also saw combat in the Korean War. He separated from the military after seven years of active duty. As a civilian, he became director of public relations and director of administration for Chrysler International from 1959 to 1971. He also served three terms as mayor of Hillsboro, Virginia (1977–81). He published articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, American Heritage, Harper's, Horizon, Smithsonian Magazine as well as serving as a contributing editor to Military History, World War II, and Collier's Encyclopedia. Farwell also published biographies of Stonewall Jackson, Henry M. Stanley, and Sir Richard Francis Burton. He was a fellow of the MacDowell Colony and a member of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society of Literature.

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The great Boer War
Representative edition published 2009
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Queen Victoria's little wars
Representative edition published 2009
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The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Land Warfare
Representative edition published 2001
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Over There
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Queen Victoria's Little Wars
Representative edition published 1999
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Stonewall
Representative edition published 1993
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Armies of the Raj
Representative edition published 1991
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Ball's Bluff
Representative edition published 1990
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The Gurkhas
Representative edition published 1990
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The Great War in Africa, 1914-1918
Representative edition published 1989
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The Man Who Presumed
Representative edition published 1989
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Eminent Victorian Soldiers
Representative edition published 1988
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Eminent Victorian Soldiers
Representative edition published 1988
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Burton
Representative edition published 1988
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Mr. Kipling's Army
Representative edition published 1987
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Queen Victoria's Little Wars
Representative edition published 1985
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The great Boer war
Representative edition published 1977
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The Great Anglo-Boer War
Representative edition published 1976
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Prisoners of the Mahdi
Representative edition published 1967
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'Great Anglo Boer War Part 1'
Representative edition published 1994
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Great Anglo-Boer War Part 2
Representative edition published 1994
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Great War in Africa
Representative edition published 1994
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For queen and country
Representative edition published 1981
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