LOUIS BOTHA'S WAR, the campaign in German South-West Africa, 1914-1915

220pp., b/w & colour illus., maps, paperback, Cape Town, 2015

In 1914, at the outbreak of the Great War, Prime Minister Louis Botha agreed to lead South Africa on a campaign against the Germans in South-West Africa. This is an account of that campaign, and the rebellion that preceded it.

"...it also gives new life to our understanding of a key and complex international figure from the start of the twentieth century" Tim Butcher, author of "Blood River"