COMMANDO COURAGEOUS - A Boer's Diary

Publisher's hardcover binding with illustrated dust jacket.

396pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author on Commando, age 22.

Binding solid. Corners sharp. Contents clean with former owner's name on front endpaper. Jacket with minimal age-associated edge wear.

A very good copy of this classic Boer War memoir.

'It is not often that a publisher comes across a manuscript of this kind. A war diary can often be a dull uninspiring record of events, some of which have already been told and often of many others which tend to become monotonous in the extreme.

Commando Courageous is, we believe, a book far and away above all personal records of the Boer War that have gone before.

The reader will quickly become aware of the tremendous courage of the author which at times borders on the fantastic and he and his fellow Commandos display repeatedly the inborn strength of purpose which can only come from people utterly convinced of the rightful purpose of their own particular passage of arms.

Quite apart from the masterful display off sheer courage and endurance R. W. Schikkerling tells his story of privations and tragic occurrences with an inexhaustible sense of humour and with a pen at once scholarly and poetic. Written some fifty years ago this soldier's story is as fresh and exhilarating as if the reader were on the field of battle to share the day's fortunes of war. All the great figures of the period are here and many personal anecdotes are recounted for posterity. We are fortunate indeed to have had the opportunity to publish this great book.' - editor's note