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2000 first edition paperback in good condition. 338 pages. R26 postage in SA.
Over 27 000 Boer women and children died during the Anglo-Boer War.
Fire in the Sky is the late Owen Coetzer's account of those who died in the concentration camps which the British built and ran in the old Boer republic known as the Orange Free State.
Fire in the Sky is a story of appalling conditions, of deprivation and of starvation.
In Fire in the Sky, Owen Coetzer describes the conditions in the Orange Free State as it lay ruined and starving in the later stages of the Anglo-Boer war.
Fire in the Sky records how Britain underestimated the "wily Boer" and how Boer families suffered as a result. Because they could not destroy the Boer commandos, Kitchener -the Lord of Chilled Steel - made war on their wives and children, herding them, without adequate food or shelter, into concentration camps on the wintry veld.
Fire in the Sky is the shocking, brutal story of a fierce, almost forgotten, struggle for freedom against the forces of a colonial power.
