BRENTHURST PRESS IAIN SMITH `THE SIEGE OF MAFEKING` VOLUME ONE THIRD SERIES

BRENTHURST PRESS IAIN SMITH "THE SIEGE OF MAFEKING" VOLUME ONE, PART OF A LIMITED EDITION OF 850 COPIES

To mark the centenary of the South African War 1899-1902, The Brenthurst Press revisited this controversial episode with a comprehensive re-examination of the Siege of Mafeking, inspired initially by a major manuscript collection in The Brenthurst Library. The archive of Baden-Powell's second-in-command, Lieutenant-Colonel Courtenay Vyvyan, whose achievements have been largely overshadowed by his famous and flamboyant superior officer, is one of the most comprehensive single archives on the siege. It has been used with innumerable other sources by the nine authors, five in Britain, four in South Africa, all authorities in their fields, as the basis for an updated review of the collective and individual experiences of the siege and the interpretation of its various aspects. New research has resulted in a richly detailed work of scholarly importance, which is at the same time highly readable and entertaining.