Major Frederick Baillie, a retired Hussar officer, wrote dispatches for The Morning Post throughout the siege of Mafeking, and this book reprints that diary day by day. He records shelling, sorties, the home-made gun and ammunition works, the hunt for plover to eke out the rations, and the mood of the garrison under Colonel Baden-Powell until relief in May 1900.
An immediate, unpolished record of the siege that made Baden-Powell a national hero. Download the free EPUB.