When the Boer ultimatum went out in October 1899, the diamond town of Kimberley found itself cut off. Phelan tells the siege week by week over eighteen chapters, dwelling on its humorous and social side: rumours, rationing, the sense of imprisonment, Cecil Rhodes’s presence and the small courtesies that kept the town sane.
An unusual civilian view of a famous siege of the Anglo-Boer War. Download the free EPUB.