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The Battle of Majuba Hill - The First Boer War by Oliver Ransford
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The Battle of Majuba - The First Boer War by Oliver Ransford.
Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. John Murray Publishers.1967. 10 Illustrations. 3 Maps. Pages 153.
Dust Jacket is torn and damaged at the top of the book and top of spine. Paper stuck on 1st blank page with an inscription. Some old cellotape glue markings. Otherwise book in very good condition.
"The Battle of Majuba Hill was fought between 365 British soldiers and an almost equal number of Transvaal burghers on a Sunday morning in 1881. By the next day this remote hill in South Africa had become famous throughout the world. For the battle was at once recognised to be the most humiliating defeat ever inflicted on British arms; only later was it identified as the Bunker Hill of Afrikanerdom and the touchstone of an exuberant nation's life. Today, although it was fought less than a long lifetime ago, and its last survivor has only recently died, this battle has already taen on the aura of a legend."
Taken from the Forward of the book.