Shut up in Ladysmith with Sir George White’s army in November 1899, the correspondent Henry Pearse recorded the whole siege: the disasters at Lombard’s Kop and Nicholson’s Nek, the investment of the town, weeks under shell fire, the great Boer assault, night sorties, sickness and dwindling rations, until the relieving force broke through at the end of February 1900.
A detailed eyewitness narrative of the most famous siege of the Boer War. Download the free EPUB.