Commando A Boer Journal of the Boer War Deneys Reitz Faber Library Bond Longford

Commando A Boer Journal of the Boer War Deneys Reitz Faber Library Bond Longford\n\nCommando A Boer Journal of the Boer War Deneys Reitz Faber Library Bond Longford\n\nClick images to enlarge\n\nDescription\n\nCommando;: A Boer Journal of the Boer War\n\nby Deneys Reitz\n\nPub. Faber, London 1942 in the Faber Library edition.\n\nReprint.\n\nHardback in dustjacket\n\n328 pages\n\nToday the word \u201Ccommando\u201D conjures a picture of daring special forces raids, but originally it was the Boer word for a mobile column of fighting men. \n\nThis is the account of one such fighting man. Aged just seventeen Deneys Reitz, son of the ex-President of the Orange Free State and then State Secretary of the South African Republic, took up his rifle and joined the Boer Army. It was 1899, and tensions between Great Britain and the Transvaal Republic and Orange Free State had reached boiling point. From their initial strikes into Natal to the surge of British troops and tr