Ladysmith (Seige of)

 Jonathan  Ball, 1979, hardcover,illustrated, 224 pages, sunned spine to dustjacket, otherwise overall condition: very good.

Ladysmith saw numerous actions during the Second Boer War, when after numerous small skirmishes the town was besieged by Boer forces on 2 November 1899. After three British attempts to relieve the defenders and one Boer attempt to take the town all failed, the siege was eventually broken on 28 February 1900. Both Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi were present at the siege, the former as a war correspondent and the latter as a stretcher-bearer.