Goodbye Dolly Gray: The Story of the Boer War

Goodbye Dolly Gray was the anthem of the South Africa War - a song that for a generation of British soldiers evoked memories of the Relief of Mafeking, the Battle of Spion Kop and the march on Pretoria. Rayne Kruger's classic account places the Boer War squarely in its social and political settings. The narrative ranges easily from the wide open spaces of the South African veld to the crowded benches of the House of Commons. It includes vivid pen portraits of the main actors in the drama (Lord Roberts, Lord Kitchener, Cecil Rhodes, and Boer leaders like Paul Kruger, Louis Botha, and Christiaan de Wet) as well as accounts of the main battles.