A TRUE CLASSIC OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR!! Three Years War - Christiaan R. de Wet

FANTASTIC FIND FOR THE SERIOUS AFRICANA COLLECTOR!!

A very rare and highly valuable book with original cover.

1902, first publication - Constable and Co Ltd. - 520pp, index, ex-library book - Hardcover: some wear and age discolouration evident on the cover - Internally:slight browning of pages, no foxing, tightly bound.

A very readable account of war through the eyes of the author, with folding map at the back and portrait of author as frontispiece.

On 11 October 1899 when the War between Britian and the Boer Republics commenced, Christiaan de Wet, was a common burgher in the ranks of the Heilbron Commando. When the war ended three years later, he held the rank of "Veght-Generaal". he had established a worldwide reputation as a most remarkable guerilla fighter. He was the man the British couldn't catch. The damage the virtually unschooled farmer who had never had a formal lesson in military tactics did was nothing less than astonishing..