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Commando: A boer journal of the Anglo-Boer war
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Country: South AfricaFormat: Softcover
Publisher: Jonathan Ball PublishersISBN: 9781868420667
Publication date: August 1998
Length: 222mm
Width: 152mm
Thickness: 16mm
Weight: 400g
Pages: 258
Readership: Research & professional
Commando: A boer journal of the Anglo-Boer war
Was R130.00
Now R117.00
The straightforward narrative of his experiences is both a classic of true-life adventure, and an unforgettable picture of mobile guerrilla warfare, in a conflict the results of which are with us to the present day.
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 Briljant!Reviewed by Pieter Kruger from Centurion, Suid Afrika on 19 May 2004
253 of 488 people found the following review helpful:
Deneys Reitz het 'n wonderlike en interresante lewe gelei. Hy skryf oor sy wedervaringe in die Boere Oorlog in 'n soms kinderlike onskuld, soos deur hom ervaar op 'n jong ouderdom. Die boek gooi jou nie toe met datums en feite nie, maar lees eerder plek-plek soos 'n avontuur storie! Tog is daar voorvalle wat hom diep geruk en geraak het en veral die noue band wat hulle as familie gehad het, kom ook na vore. Beslis 'n moet vir almal wat meer oor die alledaagse lewe van die Burgers tydens die Boere Oorlog wil lees!
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 Colourful account of the Boer WarReviewed by Zabagnew on 19 March 2007
177 of 352 people found the following review helpful:
I enjoyed this book. It was great to get a youthful South African account of the war. It did make for hard reading at times in that it became rather sketchy in places and seemed to lack continuity.
If you can get past that it makes a great read. It shows how much damage non conventional warfare can do when persuded by a determined foe against an army used to conventional set piece war.
Reitz did a great job in pulling me in to his account, in that I felt his frustration at the lack of discipline amongst the Commandos in the early stage of the war.
It gives a great account of the invasion of the Cape. You realise just how naive, but determined enemy the Boers were. It also shows the disparity between the suffering of those left to fight on and ultimately starve in the Republics and those who chose to take the fight to the British in the Cape Colony.
With all accounts of the Boer War one is left wondering how much longer the Boers could have held out had the scorched earth policy not been adopted.
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