A young Frenchman squeezes onto the crowded Marseilles express in 1899, bound for the Transvaal to fight for the Boers. Serving as a lieutenant to the French volunteer General de Villebois-Mareuil, he describes commando life, scouting among the kopjes round Boshof, and the Boer leaders and burghers he fought beside.
A rare view of the South African War from a foreign volunteer in the Boer ranks. Download the free EPUB.