The forgotten front

"The significance of confrontations along the southern or central front during the Anglo-Boer war has inclined to be under-reported and hence strategically under-emphasised. In this chronicle the authors have not only undertaken to facilitate recollective justice to this 'forgotten front', but have done so particularly by means of the untold stories of the local people and common soldiers. The unmediated experiences of previously voiceless people during turmoil in a small Karoo community are brought sharply into focus--though projected of necessity against the reality of the animosity, ravages, and casualties of war."--back cover.