Thank God We Kept the Flag Flying!: The Siege and Relief of Ladysmith, 1899-1900 - Hardcover

SOLD (On New Year's Eve, 1899, in a obscure South African town, a life and death struggle was raging that had far more significance than the lavish turn of the century celebrations lighting the great capitals of the world. 12,000 of Her Majesty's proud soldiers were slaughtering their own horses for food. For two months their garrison at Ladysmith, Natal, had been besieged by a force of 5,000 Boer Farmers, humbling the British forces under the faltering command of Redvers Buller. Draws on interviews with Boer War veterans, as well as letters, journals, and dispatches written during the siege, he vivifies the past in startling detail, combining the meticulous authenticity of the dedicated scholar with the mesmerizing immediacy of guerrilla theater) The Seige and Relief of Ladysmith 1899-1900