Fire in the Sky: The Destruction of the Orange Free State 1899-1902 by Owen Coetzer

ISBN: 9780620241144 / 0620241144 - Fire in the Sky: The Destruction of the Orange Free State 1899-1902 by Owen Coetzer. Published by Covos-Day Books, 2000. Softcover. Used, Good condition. 338 pp.

The horrifying story of the official British war policy toward the Orange Free State in the Anglo-Boer War. All but ignored in most histories, the British followed a scorched earth policy of total war in which more than 27,000 civilians, mainly women and children, were herded into concentration camps where they died in the most barbaric conditions. A shocking expose.

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