Met die Vrystaters onder die Wapen. Generaal Prinsloo en die Bethlehem-Kommando (1937)

Grobler, M J

Description:

In his foreword to this short book (144 pp), J D Kestell writes that Michael Prinsloo was one of the most successful and at the same time one of the most loved of the Orange Free State generals in the Anglo-Boer War. Both before and after the war he lived a modest life but when the war begun he emerged from nowhere, as it were, and achieved greatness: he was born for it. Kestell goes on to say that the reader may have expected more, but that Grobler had captured the spirit of the man in his prime and recorded only gently the remainder of his long life - the book was published only after Prinsloo's death.

Copies are scarce and this one comes from a small library. The green cloth-boards have bleached spots to the front - but the titling is not obscured. The rose-coloured printed rear endpaper is present but the equivalent at the front has been lost. The binding has loosened but remains flexible and the book is easy to use. The contents are unmarked and unfoxed. The book is enhanced by 10 pp of inserted portraits, plans and other plates, and an appendix provides the names, ranks, commanding officers and battles of the approximately 125 members of the Bethlehem Commando who were killed in the war as well as the names of their home communities and the dates they died.

If this sector of the war is one of your interests, this is a need-to-have book.

 

Details:

  • Publisher: Nasionale Pers
  • Publisher Place: Bloemfontein
  • Date of Publication: 1937
  • Edition: First
  • Binding Condition: Fair
  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: 195 x 140
  • Lot No: 301
  • Hammer Price: $35
  • Bids: 1
  • Visits: 53
  • Estimate: $55
  • Reserve: $35

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  • Name: Fontein Books
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