Bossenbroek, M. Tod am Kap. Geschichte des Burenkrieges

Martin Bossenbroek's award-winning account of the Boer War (1899 - 1902) is written from the perspectives of Dutch jurist Willem Leyds, British war correspondent Winston Churchill and Boer fighter Deneys Reitz. Their diaries, letters and reportages provide a direct insight into the events and inform precisely and comprehensively about the prehistory, motives, course and consequences of the conflict.

Lured by rich mineral resources, not least gold and diamonds, more and more adventurers arrive in the Boer republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal - many of them British Uitlanders. When the Boers deny them equality, the government in London sends a quarter of a million soldiers to the Cape to annex the region to the Empire. The world gets a foreshadowing of all-out war: British troops cut swathes of devastation through the Boer republics and mercilessly extend the war to the civilian population. They intern 230,000 people in "concentration camps", 46,000 die, most of them children. Around 200 correspondents were on the move in the combat zone at the time, providing the world public with information more thoroughly than ever before from any war. Thanks to intensive evaluation of these rich sources, Martin Bossenbroek is able to create a picture of the Boer War as dense as no author before him.