GOODBYE DOLLY GRAY The Story of the Boer War RAYNE KRUGER

 GOODBYE DOLLY GRAY The Story of the Boer War ;  RAYNE KRUGER ; Softcover ;  Pan Books 1983 ;                                ISBN 0 330 23861 2  ; No. of Pages ; 540  ; Illustrated .

Good condition  , no tears and very good binding ;   note some light shelfwear  and minor creases to the cover and light browning of the paper .

Taking his title from that bade farewell to an era, Rayner Kruger brilliantly describes the background, the arms and armies, the campaigns and personalities of the war in which soldiers from across the British Empire marched to a succession of brave defeats at hands of sharpshooting farmers. These were calamitous blows, struck not only at an immense British Army but - as t Review; " Taking his title from that bade farewell to an era, Rayner Kruger brilliantly describes the background, the arms and armies, the campaigns and personalities of the war in which soldiers from across the British Empire marched to a succession of brave defeats at hands of sharpshooting farmers. These were calamitous blows, struck not only at an immense British Army but - as the old century passed into the new - at Victorian prestige, assumptions and complacency."