ON COMMANDO
- Published:
- London, 1902
- Stock number:
- #4773/2
- Category:
- Anglo-Boer War
R1,500
Approximately $92
183 pages, 8vo (200 x 135 mm), frontispiece portrait, red cloth gilt, spine faded, fore-edges and bottom edges uncut, overall a good copy
This book 'was written in a prisoner-of-war camp in India by a young Transvaler, Dietlof van Warmelo. The manuscript was smuggled from the camp to Holland; it was translated into English and published in London in 1902, before the end of the war.' (Publisher's note in the reprint edition of 1977).