In February 1900 Childers rode out of St. John’s Wood Barracks as a driver with the battery of the City Imperial Volunteers. His letters and diary follow the voyage, the camps at Stellenbosch, and long marches through the Orange Free State past Bloemfontein, Lindley and Bethlehem, with veldt fires, short rations and sharp fights.
A vivid ranker’s view of the South African War by the future author of The Riddle of the Sands. Download the free EPUB.