THE BOOK OF WAR (EIGHT XHOSA WAR RELATED). IN SOUTH AFRICA

Whyle (James). The Book of War (Eight Xhosa War related). Auckland Park: Jacana Media, 2012. First Edition. "An illiterate European child is stranded on the southern tip of Africa. The British and the Xhosa have been spilling each other’s blood for eighty years and the kid signs up for the conflict in the hope of steady meals and a few shillings a month........... Although it is based closely on first-hand accounts of the 8th Xhosa War, the book creates the effect of an intense defamiliarisation of a history educated South Africans will believe themselves to be au fait with. It converts the bare facts of times past into something terrible and strange. Anyone who has asked themselves why South Africa is a violent country will find a disturbing answer in The Book of War." 264pp, maps. Very Good, with few light marks to textblock's edges. Pictorial Laminated Wrappers. (##3233)