Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa-Meredith

Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa By Martin Meredith

In 1871 prospectors chanced upon upon the world's richest deposits of diamonds. Fifteen years later a digger stumbled across a rocky outcrop of gold-bearing reef on a highveld ridge known as the Witwatersrand.What followed was a titanic struggle between the British and the Boers. it culminated in the Anglo-Boer War which played an important part in the making of Modern South Africa.

Published in Great Britain by Simon and Schuster. First Edition 2007. very good clean secondhand condition.