The Campaign in South-West Africa, 1914-1915

✍ Scribed by Cruise, Adam

• Book ID: 108576911
• Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 7 MB
• Series: Louis Botha's War
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781770227521

✦ Synopsis

A mere twelve years after fighting the British in the Anglo-Boer War, Louis Botha went to war again – this time on Britain's side. As prime minister of the Union of South Africa at the outbreak of the Great War, Botha agreed to lead his country on a campaign against the Germans across the border in South-West Africa. But first he would have to deal with a revolt from fellow Afrikaners who would rather take up arms against him than side with the old enemy. Louis Botha's War is the story of how a former Boer War general crushed a rebellion and rallied his country's first united army to fight a better-equipped enemy in harsh conditions. It is a tale of thirsty men and horses trekking over miles of barren desert; German aviators flying above in rickety aeroplanes; the unusual presence of a prime minister's wife on the field of battle; and a fabled gold-filled safe at the bottom of a lake. Adam Cruise recreates these fascinating events from journals, memoirs and documents, and...