351 pages: 5 folding maps. Cloth rubbed on bottom edge, page edges foxed as normally seen, dust wrapper (red) frayed along top edge.
TREKKING ON begins where COMMANDO (1929) ended. Reitz's period in Madagascar, his return to the Transvaal, his recuperation and his stay in the home of J.C. and Issie Smuts, his years as a lawyer in Heilbron, the Rebellion, World War I in German West and German East Africa, and finally his time on the Western Front.
Upon his arrival in London in 1917, Reitz enlisted as a private. General Smuts, then in the War Cabinet, found out and summoned Reitz (who had served alongside him during the SA War 1899-1902), to visit him at the Savoy Hotel (where Reitz witnessed Smuts and Churchill discussing the war). Thereafter Reitz was sent to Aldershot to complete a senior officers' course "This was General Smuts' doing… I had graduated from Private to Second Lieutenant, to Major, in the course of a week" [p. 165]. Reitz ended the war commanding the 1st Royal Scots Fusiliers, having seen considerable action.
This copy has the very fragile (and thus very scarce) dust wrapper.
- Jacket Condition: Unusually good
- Binding Condition: Excellent
- Overall Condition: Very good
- Size: 23 x 15 cm
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