When British forces took Bloemfontein in March 1900, Lord Roberts handed the town’s newspaper, The Friend, to a group of war correspondents to run for the troops. Julian Ralph tells how they produced it amid the Boer War, and the book reprints a generous selection of the articles, verses and jokes they printed, including contributions from Rudyard Kipling.
A rare, good-humoured glimpse of journalism in the field, and of soldiers and writers making the best of a hard campaign. Download the free EPUB.