Author: Taffy ShearingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afrikaners
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Brave Boer Boy and Other Stories
Author: Taffy ShearingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afrikaners
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
God Does Not Forget
Author: Deneys ReitzPublisher:
ISBN: 9781935585831
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"One of the greatest war books ever written." "A vivid, unforgettable picture of mobile guerrilla warfare." In 1899 a 17 year old boy by the name of Dennys Reitz volunteered to fight for his country, South Africa, against the British. He could ride and shoot with the best of them, so he was quickly assigned to a Boer Commando Unit-one of the highly mobile light cavalry units that were driving the British crazy. Outmanned, outgunned, and under-supplied, the Boer commandos nevertheless checked the British at almost every turn. They became masters of lightning attacks, night fighting, and ambushes, only to disappear to strike again somewhere else. Reitz was in it from beginning to end, and participated in nearly every major battle. His descriptions of war and adventure have come to be regarded as among the best in the English language. After the fighting was over, Reitz chose to live in Madagascar rather than remain in South Africa under British rule; and it was from there that he wrote this book. But his exile did not last. His old commander talked him into returning to his homeland to help build the new dominion. To this task, he brought the courage and leadership he had learned as a commando, eventually becoming a Member of Parliament, Cabinet Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, and South African High Commissioner to London. He also fought bravely on the Western Front during WW-I-for the British.
Poison in Small Measure: Dr. Christopherson and the Cure for Bilharzia
Author: Ann Crichton-HarrisPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047428854
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
In 1917, in Khartoum, Dr. J.B. Christopherson experimentally treated seventy bilharzia patients with injections of antimony tartrate, an early chemotherapy. His was the first successful treatment. Antimony had never been tried on bilharzia patients before, or so he believed. This biography examines the turbulent life of this medical pioneer, his fight for priority and his struggle for professional survival amid the politics of exclusion in General Wingate's Sudan. His was a career full of paradoxes: acclaimed for intercepting a smallpox outbreak, building a hospital and satellite clinics, he battled accusations and removal as director of the Medical Department. From the Boer War, two decades in Sudan, his capture and release in Serbia to his time in France in WW1, controversy seldom left him.
Baby & Other Stories
Author: Paula BomerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780977934379
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Paula Bomer is a dangerous writer. The short stories in her debut collection are subversive portraits of the modern American family. From a husband who traces his internal crisis to witnessing his wife giving birth, to a mother who forces her young son on a rainy walk through a cemetery as she contemplates the detritus of her marriage, Bomer¿s characters are hauntingly familiar. Their fear and rage, their failures and desires are our own.
The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
Author: Boer War Illustrated
Author: Thomas PakenhamPublisher:
ISBN: 9781868420742
Category : South African War, 1899-1902
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Our Boys
Author: The bolted door, & other stories
Author: Mrs. MolesworthCatalogue of the Books for Boys and Girls [in the Central Lending Library]
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Author: Bolton (England). Public LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
The Ghost of the Trenches and other stories
Author: Helen WattsPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472907892
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
As the Great War raged, and in its aftermath, people created hundreds of legends and stories round it, to speak of the sadness, the heroism, the deaths. Author Helen Watts and storyteller Taffy Thomas bring together this compelling, moving collection of ghost stories and mysteries from both sides of the conflict, from the haunted U-boat to the ghost of the trenches.