At the start of the last century twenty thousand Boers
defied a quarter of a million British troops for two
years in a classic guerrilla war. They fought with
courage, daring and pigheaded obstinacy. This is the
true diary of a young Boer fighting the foreigners who
coveted the fabled gold of his beloved Transvaal. A
tale of triumph and disaster, fear and hope, humor
and tragedy,  it tells us much about the Boer War and
South Africa, its land and  peoples, both black and
white. A must read for students of history and warfare.