Jan Smuts: Memoirs of Boer War
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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.
*Vertical bend mark at bottom of front cover, otherwise very good; paperback.*
| Author | Jan Smuts (SB Spies; G Nattrass eds.) |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Jonathan Ball Publishers |
| Place | Johannesburg |
| Year | 2003 |
| ISBN | 9781868420759 |
| Binding | Paperback |
| Condition | Very Good |
| Comments | Vertical bend mark at bottom of front cover, otherwise very good. |
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