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Die Groot Boere-Ontsnapping (Afrikaans, Paperback) Price: R336
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Die Groot Boere-Ontsnapping (Afrikaans, Paperback)

Willie Steyn

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Hierdie boek is Willie Steyn se eerstehandse weergawe van wat ongetwyfeld die grootste ontsnappingsveraal van die Anglo-Boereoorlog is. Hy was een van seshondred Boere wat per skip na die eiland van Ceylon gestuur is om daar in die Diyatalawa-kamp geïnterneer te word. Die skip was op 'n donker, maanlose nag in die hawe van Colombo vasgeanker toe Steyn en vier van sy mede-gevangenes een-een met 'n tou in die water afsak terwyl Britse soldate om die skip patrolleer.

Die bekoring van Willie Steyn se persoonlike weergawe lê in die onderbeklemtoning en die feitlike eenvoud daarvan. Hy probeer homself nie as 'n held voorstel nie en maak geen aanspraak op roem nie, maar die intensiteit en krag van die vertelling verhoog namate dit ontvou. Vanaf die oomblik dat hy op die slagveld gevange geneem word, het Willie Steyn een doel voor oë: Hy gáán ontsnap. Die leser word bewus van hierdie dwingende dryfkrag, en leer Willie ken as 'n ongebonde gees, wat selfs in gevangenskap nooit sy brandende begeerte en vasberadenheid om tot die stryd terug te keer, verloor nie.

Deneys Reitz - skrywer van Kommando en bekend vir sy eie dapperheid - het in 1903 Steyn as 'een van ons dapperste burgers' beskryf, en sy ontsnapping as 'n daad 'sonder weerga in die geskiedenis van ontsnapping' genoem.

General

Imprint: Cederberg Publishers
Country of origin: South Africa
Release date: 2019
Authors: Willie Steyn
Dimensions: 210 x 130 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 978-0-9922015-4-8
Languages: Afrikaans
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Historical, political & military
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Military life & institutions > General
Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Other warfare & defence issues > Prisoners of war
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > Biography > Historical, political & military
Books > Afrikaans > Geesteswetenskappe
Books > Afrikaans > Taal en Letterkunde
Books > Afrikaans > Biografieë
Books > Afrikaans > Maatskaplike Wetenskappe
Books > Local Author Showcase > Politics
Books > Local Author Showcase > Biography > Historical
Books > Local Author Showcase > Biography > Political
Books > Local Author Showcase > Afrikaans > Biography
Books > Local Author Showcase > Afrikaans > Politics
LSN: 0-9922015-4-3
Barcode: 9780992201548

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