How We Escaped from Pretoria

By Aylmer Haldane
Africana Reprint Library
Volume 11
1977

Facsimile reproduction of the 1901 edition with new foreword and index.
This leather-bound edition is limited to 101 copies; this is no. 33.

How We Escaped from Pretoria is a memoir by Captain Aylmer Haldane that provides a first-hand account of his capture and daring escape from a Boer prison camp during the Second Boer War in 1899-1900.

A recount of Captain Aylmer Haldane's experiences after he was captured during the armoured train ambush near Estcourt on November 15, 1899, an incident also involving Winston Churchill. He and other officers were taken as prisoners of war to the Staats Model School in Pretoria.

The memoir is praised for offering insights into the resilience of prisoners of war and the strategies they employed to survive, making it a valuable historical narrative for enthusiasts of military history.

150mm x 225mm

R1,500