General de Wet - Eric Rosenthal - Simondium Publishers -1968 - 295pp, indexed, black and white photographs - Hard cover with dust cover in good condition - Internally: clean and tight.

Eric Rosenthal’s General De Wet counts among the most popular biographies ever published in South Africa. The career of this astounding old Boer leader who without ever having read a military text book out-fought and out-manoeuvred some of the most prominent regular soldiers of his age and whose escapes from the efforts of the entire British army to capture him have become a legend makes a breath-taking story. All over the world including Britain Europe and the United States of America General De Wet’s name became a household word. (One well known British traveller Harry de Windt came upon his portrait in a cottage in a remote part of Siberia.) After the campaign which was to make his name immortal he visited Europe where he met many of the best-known personalities of the day. Though he became a founder of the Union of South Africa he also took a lead in the 1914 Rebellion upon which puzzling episode new light is thrown. To the end of his life General De Wet remained the unassuming homely farmer from the veld yet none whom he encountered failed to be impressed by his personality and genius.