Fire in the Sky: The Destruction of the Orange Free State, 1899-1902 by Coetzer, Owen
Fire in the Sky: The Destruction of the Orange Free State, 1899-1902 by Coetzer, Owen
Softcover
ISBN 9780620241144 / 0620241144
Publisher: Covos-Day Books , 2000
Condition: Very Good.The wraps have some very, very slight signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains perfect. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far.
An account of those who died in the concentration camps of the Orange Free State in appalling conditions, of deprivation and starvation. 338 Pages.
The horrifying story of the official British war policy toward the Orange Free State in the Anglo-Boer War. All but ignored in most histories, the British followed a scorched earth policy of total war in which more than 27,000 civilians, mainly women and children, were herded into concentrations camps where they died in the most barbaric conditions. A shocking expose.
