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THE BOOK OF WAR. James Whyle. Eastern Cape Frontier Wars
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THE BOOK OF WAR. James Whyle. Eastern Cape Frontier Wars

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1997. Hard cover with dust cover. 192 pages. Very good condition. Under 1kg.

A flickering scene of carnage in the forest. A fairy tale metamorphosed into something simple and old and real and horrible beyond reckoning. Yellow fires roaring like dragons and choking smoke and a stench of burning hair and bone and flesh and the trees looming over it. Bloodied beasts clotted with gore that sniffed about for any that might still live. A slathered shape approached.
 
"I think some got away."
 
"They'll spread the word," said the Captain.
 
A realist nightmare that piles horror upon horror, The Book of War tells the story of a child who comes to manhood in the cauldron of war. With inescapable prophecies locked quietly in the terse lines, it shines an uneasy light on how South Africa started to become what it is... 

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James Whyle’s The Book of War spans the Eastern Cape Frontier Wars of the mid-19th century and also has a young lad known only as “the kid” as its central protagonist. The kid is part of a band of ruffians. These irregulars, as they are called, find themselves authorised to clear the uncharted territories of the Eastern Cape of unwanted inhabitants by whatever means they can. They, under the command of their young captain, lay waste to the people they encounter as they break down the settlements of so-called heathens. Violence is relentless and bleak on all sides, even sometimes within the irregulars’ own camp. Rape and murder take place as a matter of course as the band of men move through the landscape of the Eastern Cape.

 

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29 Oct 2015