Henty follows young Yorke through the second phase of the South African War: Methuen’s check at Magersfontein, Roberts’s great advance on Kimberley and Bloemfontein, and the march to Pretoria. Scouting, capture and escape alternate with careful accounts of the actual battles and the blunders that preceded them.
One of Henty’s last books, written while the war was still being fought, with the imperial outlook of 1901. Download the free EPUB.