Publisher's orange cloth binding with the coat of arms of the Transvaal Republic on the front panel and titles on spine. Portrait of General Maritz on the front panel of the dust jacket.
263pp. Text in Afrikaans.
Binding sound. Internally clean. Scarce dust jacket with minimal age-associated edge wear.
Manie Maritz fought alongside Danie Theron (killed in action), Captain Gideon Scheepers (executed by firing squad) and Deneys Reitz during the Anglo-Boer War. Deneys mentioned Maritz's immense physical strength even when wounded. He also relates the incident of how Maritz was lured into an ambush by British-sided Hottentots at the mission station at Leliefontein, and, after barely having escaped, how Maritz returned the next morning to take his revenge. Reitz disapproved of this and describes how General Smuts, having visited Leliefontein a few days after the massacre, was extremely dissatisfied with Maritz. Ten years after the publication of Commando (1929), Maritz would publish My Lewe en Strewe "My Life and Aspirations" and replied to Reitz's accusation by saying he understood why Deneys might think his actions were excessive, but that he wasn't the one who, due to one person's treachery, suddenly found himself with his back against the church door at Leliefontein, surrounded by murderous Hottentots, on that balmy morning, fighting for his life.
- Jacket Condition: Very Good
- Binding Condition: Fine
