Goodbye Dolly Gray

Taking his title from that bade farewell to an era, Rayner Kruger brilliantly describes the background, the arms and armies, the campaigns and personalities of the war in which soldiers from across the British Empire marched to a succession of brave defeats at hands of sharpshooting farmers. GOODBYE DOLLY GRAY places the glory and the savagery of the South African war into the perspective of modern Africa. 'His organization of his vast material is masterly' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT