BULLET IN THE HEART - Four Brothers ride to war 1899-1902

'A precious and rare publication ... The moving stories of love, longing and suffering provide valuable new...
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Author: Beverley Roos-Muller
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Language: English
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BULLET IN THE HEART - Four Brothers ride to war 1899-1902 by Roos-Muller, Beverley

BULLET IN THE HEART - Four Brothers ride to war 1899-1902

Dhs. 114.96

BULLET IN THE HEART - Four Brothers ride to war 1899-1902

Dhs. 114.96
Author: Beverley Roos-Muller
Format: Paperback
Language: English

'A precious and rare publication ... The moving stories of love, longing and suffering provide valuable new insights into tumultuous times that helped shape South Africa.' - Max du Preez


It is nine months this evening since I last saw the light in my own house, when I had to tear myself away from all that is dear to me. And today is also my little son's birthday. Oh, how I long for home.

So wrote Michael Muller in 1901 as he gazed at the lights of Cape Town from a ship bound for Bermuda, after months of internment in a British POW camp in Simon's Town. The camps were full, so Boer prisoners were being sent to other parts of the empire. Michael's brothers, Chris and Pieter, were exiled to Ceylon while Lool was held in the Green Point camp in Cape Town.


Remarkably, three of the brothers kept diaries, the only known instance of this happening in the Boer War. The scrawled notes of Chris on the evening after the legendary Magersfontein battle, the rain-dashed pages written by Lool in Colesberg, and the angry words penned by Michael about his treatment at Surrender Hill have the urgency of men determined to go on record.


When Beverley Roos-Muller began to explore writing about the Boer experience of the war, she read the tiny diary of Michael, grandfather of her husband, Ampie Muller. It led her to the discovery of the other diaries and many more documents. She also records the brothers' difficult return home and examines the consequences for South Africa of the bitterness this strife evoked.


This is a beautifully told account of the fellowship of four brothers in war, their capture and eventual recovery.




Author: Beverley Roos-Muller
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Published: 06/01/2023
Pages: 274
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9781776192748

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