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Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War

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A Rare Copy. The first edition of Commando by Deneys Rietz was published in 1929. This book is a 1930 reprint edition. (MCMXXX). 4th Impression. No dust jacket. The corners are bumped and there is edge wear along the boards and top and bottom of spine. Sun fading to cloth and rubbing. Names of previous owners to inside fly page and a gift dedication on subsequent page . The front & back pages have foxing and browning with age. The binding is tight. Overall good book.
Commando has for many years been regarded as one of the best narratives of war and adventure in the English language. While still in his teens Deneys Reitz served in the Boer forces during the South African War and, after fighting to the bitter end, chose exile in Madagascar rather than life under the British flag. It was during those years of banishment that he set down, while it was still vivid in his memory, this record of battle and guerilla warfare. The word 'commando' has been made familiar to us, these last few years, by the exploits of those picked men who harried the enemy by many spectacular and desperate stratagems in the Second World War. It was originally, of course, the Boer word used for those mobile columns of fighting men which, despite their inferiority in numbers and supplies, held out and hit back so vigorously against the British in South Africa. This chronicle of forced marches, ambuscades, night attacks and narrow escapes shows why the Boer resistance took so long to crack. Fritz learned the craft of the guerilla under such masters as Botha, De la Rey and Smuts, and from Smuts he learned, too, in due course the arts of peace, for it was Smuts who persuaded Reitz to return to South Africa and help in building the young Dominion. In that capacity Reitz showed the same qualities of wisdom, courage and leadership which he had developed as a fighting man, and he crowned a brilliant career of public service to the Union of South Africa by becoming its High Commissioner in London.
About the author. Deneys Reitz (1882?1944), son of Francis William Reitz, was a Boer soldier, later a South African soldier in the First World War, and a politician.While in exile in Madagascar, he wrote about his experience of the Second Boer War (1899?1902), so that, when it was eventually edited and published in 1929 as Commando: A Boer Journal Of The Boer War, it still had the freshness and detail of an account written soon after the war. Not only is the account very well written and an important source for the Second Boer War, but his family connections (his father was State Secretary of the Transvaal) and sheer luck provide for a unique account because he was present at virtually every major event of the War.
Bibliographic information
Title Commando: A Boer Journal of the Boer War
Author Deneys Reitz
Edition reprint, 4th Impression, Hardback
Publisher Faber & Faber, 1930
Length 331 pages

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