Henry Nevinson reached Natal for the Daily Chronicle just as the Boer War broke out, travelling to the front in a train crammed with armed Boers. His letters follow the battles of Elandslaagte, Tinta Inyoni and Nicholson’s Nek, and then the long months shut up in Ladysmith under shellfire, hunger and fever.
Vivid, humane war reporting by one of the great correspondents of his generation. Download the free EPUB.