Paul Kruger His Life and Times – John Fisher Secker and Warburg London

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Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Paul Kruger lives in history as the President of the Boer Republic who, at the turn of the last century, was the first to dent the prestige of the hitherto all-powerful British Empire. Inevitably he lost the Boer War, but the Boer commanders infliced humiliating defeats on the British forces, winning the sympathy of all Europe in the process. John Fisher, author of The Afrikaners, bring vividly to life this strange, almost Biblical figure, who was born a subject of the Queen Victoria but successfully defied her statesmen and generals for nearly a quarter of a century. 278 pages including index and photographs.