Howard C. Hillegas used to be barely 23 years old when he used to be sent to South Africa on assignment with the New York World to hide the growing hostilities between the British colonial administration and the Boer Republics. Four years later, when war erupted between the 2 sides, it used to be Hillegas who broke the news to the world. These experiences spurred the young journalist to jot down this book — released variously as The Boers in War or as With the Boer Forces.
The text used to be unsurprisingly suppressed in the UK on its release in 1901. The Second Boer War — a brutal affair, costly and bitter for both sides — would not finish until the next year. Although Britain would emerge victorious, the nature of the victory would go away a bitter taste for the British establishment. The writings of Howard C. Hillegas — an American journalist embedded with the Boers and a personal friend of Boer leader Paul Kruger — contained a couple of too many inconvenient truths for the UK and her people within the autumn years of Empire.
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