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Commando - A Boer Journal of the Boer War (Paperback)
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Commando - A Boer Journal of the Boer War (Paperback)
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1929. Deneys Reitz, who is now one of General Smuts's political
lieutenants and a warm supporter of the British Commonwealth,
fought through the South African War as our enemy. He enlisted on
the outbreak of the war as a boy of seventeen and went through it
to the bitter end. His father was President of the Orange Free
State, and after peace was concluded he and his family went into
exile. Later he returned to his own country; and later still fought
in the Great War on the side of the Allies, first in West and South
Africa, and then in France, where he was severely wounded, and
where he came to command the First Battalion of the Royal Scots
Fusiliers. Commando abounds in interesting sidelights and
portraits-Kruger, De Wet, Smuts, Kitchener. One of the most
remarkable passages gives us a glimpse of the young Winston
Churchill as prisoner of war in Pretoria. It is difficult to speak
of this book in anything short of a string of superlatives. The
spirit of it is magnificent; the uncomplaining courage of the
boy-fighter rouses memories of all the stories down the ages about
unrecking devotion to an ideal. And not one of them is a finer one
than this.
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