Jan Smuts – Memoirs of the Boer War – Edited by S B Spies & Gail Nattrass
Jan Smuts – Memoirs of the Boer War – Edited by S B Spies & Gail Nattrass
Hardcover, ISBN 1868420175
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers-, 1994
Condition: Very Good+. This book is in an excellent condition. The DJ has only some 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. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.
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 baby son, whom he was never to see again and left Pretoria to join the Boer commandos. That morning 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 Roberts’s army entered the capital. It was the South African War of 1899-1902 (Anglo-Boer War) that first fully revealed the versatility and leadership qualities of Jan Smuts, who came to play such an important role in South African and world affairs. His Memoirs of the Boer War are a lucid, humorous and compassionate account of critical events from the fall of Pretoria to the reorganisation of the commandos in the December of that year; they are also a commentary on much that was important to him.
The Memoirs are fully illustrated with photographs and maps and are amplified by the addition of an introduction, notes, biographical sketches, chronology and bibliography.
