Following the campaign's successful conclusion, Alderson returned to Aldershot and wrote his first book, "With the Mounted Infantry and the Mashonaland Field Force, 1896", an account of the war and a thesis on the tactical uses of mounted infantry.
Вернувшись из Африки, написал свою первую книгу — «With the Mounted Infantry and the Mashonaland Field Force, 1896», являющуюся пособием по тактическому использованию кавалерии.