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Commando - A Boer Journal of the Boer War

By: Kessenger Publishing

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Kessenger Publishing)


Product Info

Title
Commando - A Boer Journal of the Boer War
Category
Author
Deneys Reitz
Publish Year
2005
Pages
114
Dimensions
5.25x8x1.25"
NKG Part #
2148193334
Type
Hardcover

Description

Today the word “commando” conjures a picture of daring special forces raids, but originally it was the Boer word for a mobile column of fighting men.

This is the account of one such fighting man.

Aged just seventeen Deneys Reitz, son of the ex-President of the Orange Free State and then State Secretary of the South African Republic, took up his rifle and joined the Boer Army.

It was 1899, and tensions between Great Britain and the Transvaal Republic and Orange Free State had reached boiling point.

From their initial strikes into Natal to the surge of British troops and the transition to bloody guerrilla warfare, through luck and family ties Reitz was present at most of the major events.

Not published until 1929, ‘Commando’ remains one of the most unique and important pieces of literature about the conflict.