Memoirs of the Boer War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memoirs of the Boer War write by Jan Christiaan Smuts. This book was released on 1994. Memoirs of the Boer War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On the afternoon of Monday 4 June 1900, the young State Attorney of the South African Republic bade a sad farewell to his wife and child whom he was never to see again and left Pretoria to join the Boer commandos. He had braved shot and shell to put the government's sole source of finance for the continuing war - less than half a million pounds sterling in gold and coins - on a special train to President Kruger in the Eastern Transvaal. The next day, Lord Robert's army entered the capital. Jan Smuts came to play an important role in the South African war of 1899-1902. His memoirs are recorded here, and they present an account of the critical events from the fall of Pretoria to the reorganization of the commandos in December that year.
Boer Boy
Boer Boy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Boer Boy write by Chris Schoeman. This book was released on 2010-11-05. Boer Boy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Boer Boy is the touching true story of a ten-year- old farm boy’s traumatic but fascinating experiences during the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902. When Charles du Preez and his father were discovered hiding in the mountains of their eastern Free State farm, they were taken prisoner by the English and transported in open coal trucks to Durban. From there they began a harrowing journey aboard the SS Aurania to the prisoner-of-war camps of Umballa and Solon in India, where Charles was the youngest inmate. Back in South Africa, Charles’s mother and siblings, apprehended while fleeing the Khakis during Lord Kitchener’s destructive ‘scorched earth’ campaign, were interned in the infamous Winburg concentration camp. Based on an account Charles wrote later in life as well as other notable oral and documentary sources, including a diary kept by Charles’s mother during the war, Boer Boy tracks the Du Preez family’s wartime experiences. It culminates in Charles and his father’s repatriation to South Africa, where the family was reunited and returned home to the ruins of their farm to start again. Enthralling, poignant and richly informative, this is a valuable addition to the history of the Anglo-Boer War.
The Struggle Between Boer and Brit: The Memoirs of Boer General C. R. De Wet
The Struggle Between Boer and Brit: The Memoirs of Boer General C. R. De Wet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Struggle Between Boer and Brit: The Memoirs of Boer General C. R. De Wet write by Christiaan de Wet. This book was released on 2021-03-24. The Struggle Between Boer and Brit: The Memoirs of Boer General C. R. De Wet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Written by one of the most famous Second Boer War guerrilla leaders, this dramatic work provides a first hand account of many of the great events of that conflict, written from the losing side's perspective. Appointed "fighting general" at the start of the war, De Wet reveals his plans and strategies used in man of the most famous battles of the war-including Nicholson's Nek, Ladysmith, Paardeberg, Sanna's Post, and many more. After the British had occupied all the major Boer settlements, the war then switched to a hard-fought guerilla conflict-a tactic at which De Wet excelled. After harassing the British forces for over two years, De Wet shows how the Boer forces were finally forced to surrender-after the civilian population was interned in concentration camps. This book also contains a full transcript of the last meetings of the Boer commanders just before the end of the war, in which it is revealed that there were only 15,000 men left in the field (fighting a Briths force of 250,000), and discussed the plight of the Boer women and children in the concentration camps. The conclusion they drew was to fight on and be utterly exterminated as a people, or surrender and be subjected to British rule. This edition contains the complete original text. A newly-added biography of the author includes De Wet's exploits after the war, including his participation in the unsuccessful armed Boer Rebellion of 1914.
London to Ladysmith & Ian Hamilton's March
London to Ladysmith & Ian Hamilton's March - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook London to Ladysmith & Ian Hamilton's March write by Winston Churchill. This book was released on 2013-01-23. London to Ladysmith & Ian Hamilton's March available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In addition to his enduring fame as a statesman, Winston Churchill was a Nobel Prize-winning author whose military histories offer the unique perspective of a participant in world affairs. London to Ladysmith and Ian Hamilton's March reflect his early career as a Boer War correspondent for London's Morning Post in 1899 and 1900. London to Ladysmith chronicles the Boer War's first five months, from the author's arrival in South Africa to his capture during a Boer ambush of an armored train. Churchill's gripping narrative of his escape from a prisoner-of-war camp traces a grueling journey across enemy territory and back to British lines. Ian Hamilton's March picks up the action immediately afterward, documenting the eponymous general's 400-mile advance from Bloemfontein to Pretoria. The march saw ten major battles and numerous skirmishes, culminating in the release of prisoners from the camp where Churchill himself was held. Written mostly in the field, this book offers a vivid, personal account of the conditions under which the Boer War was fought, as well as a fascinating look at the formative years of one of the twentieth century's preeminent leaders.
My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War
My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War write by Ben J. Viljoen. This book was released on 1902. My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
