Anecdotes of the Anglo-Boer War - Rob Milne

Wars always generate stories and everybody loves a story. Rob Milne has compiled this selection of Anglo-Boer War stories from all over South Africa and recounts them in a book that saddens, mystifies, but most of all entertains. Theres the devotion of the English fiancée who for 60 years sent a sprig of heather to the Lake Chrissie post office for her beloveds grave, the tale of the lone Boer sniper who held off the entire Guards Brigade for more than a day after the battle of Bergendal,  Sergeant Woodward's two graves in Heidelberg and the ghosts of the British officers that still haunt the Elands River Valley.