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Auction #115 begins on 30 May 2024

Anglo-Boer War

PEN PICTURES OF THE WAR

By Men at the Front, Volume 1. The Campaign in Natal to the Battle of Colenso

Published: Horace Marshall & Son, London, 1900

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343 pages, frontispiece, 10 maps and plans, khaki pictorial cloth slightly soiled, corners bumped, working loose at the front hinge.

A South African Bibliography vol 3 page 646: Volume 2 was never published.

Mendelssohn (Sidney) South African Bibliography volume, 2 page 389: Scenes in the South African War described by extracts from letters sent by officers and privates to relations and newspapers. It is stated in the Preface that telegrams sent by the war correspondents were censored in such a manner that there was a grave perversion of the truth, and an example is printed of an original message, with its censored edition by its side. It is stated that with regard to this telegram, "The art of elision ... transferred a captured maxim from the Boers to the English, and converted 180 English prisoners sent to Pretoria into 180 Boers killed."

  • Size: 8vo (195 x 135 mm)
  • Sold By: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
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  • Country: South Africa
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