FIRE IN THE SKY. THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ORANGE FREE STATE IN SOUTH AFRICA

About the product 220 x 150 mm; laminated pictorial wrappers (housed in removable protector); pp. (xvi) + 338, incl. index, + publisher's catalogue; plates; map. Trace of spotting to edges. Very good condition."Over 27,000 Boer women and children died during the Anglo-Boer War. This is the account of those who died in the concentration camps of the Orange Free State; in appalling conditions, of deprivation and starvation. From end to end, the Orange Free State lay ruined and starving.. Because they could not capture or kill the men, Roberts and Kitchener--the Lord of Chilled Steel--made war on the wives and children, driving them without food or shelter onto the wintry veld.. The shocking, brutal story of a fierce, almost forgotten struggle for freedom." Fire in the Sky. The destruction of the Orange Free State 1899 - 1902 (Owen Coetzer)