south african war, 1899-1902

Corlie Roux's lives with her family on a farm in the harsh climate of South Africa, but after her father dies, Corlie is left with her mother, who is as cruel to her as she is kind to Corlie's brothers, and the British have begun their invasion to remove families like hers from the Transvaal and Corlie will come to rely on inner strength and an unexpected alliance with a Canadian soldier while she is stuck in an internment camp.

"Fourteen-year-old Lettie and her family are Afrikaners, Dutch settlers in turn-of-the-century southern Africa. When the British Empire wages a brief but brutal two-year war against them, Afrikaner forces will lose thirty-five hundred soldiers, but the toll on Dutch women and children will be eight times greater. Now a footnote, this period in history bears one particularly abhorrent distinction: the use of concentration camps three decades before Hitler. More than twenty-six thousand Dutch women and children will have died of disease and starvation in British concentration camps by the war's end. Taken from their farm and forced into one such camp, Lettie and her family fight to survive in the face of unimaginable conditions. Brave, defiant Lettie longs to be a writer. Enriched by fond memories of stargazing with her grandfather before the war and emboldened by her mother's strength in the face of so much hardship, Lettie is a courageous heroine who refuses to be bowed by adversity"--.

"[Provides a] narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War"--Provided by publisher.

Dr. Gustav Uyterhoeven leaves Dayton, Ohio, in the late nineteenth-century to serve as a physician in the Boer War, and sends home twelve letters to his wife which chronicle his spiritual conversion, disguised as tales of his explorations of the imaginary island of Antipodes.

A collection of war stories and poems by Rudyard Kipling, including an introduction and notes by Andrew Rutherford.

Under siege for 120 days during the Boer War, the inhabitants of a South African town go to pieces in this historical novel inspired by letters written by the author's great-grandfather, a British trooper in the war.

Examines the role the Anglo-Boer War played in the development of modern South Africa, and highlights key figures and events that influenced the war and its impact on the people of South Africa.