The Brunt of the War and Where It Fell

By Emily Hobhouse
1902
First Edition.

A critical, firsthand account documenting the suffering of Boer women and children in British concentration camps during the Second Boer War. Hobhouse exposes the inhumane conditions resulting from the British policy of burning farms, detailing starvation, disease, and high mortality rates, which forced reforms and changed public opinion.

Emily Hobhouse (9 April 1860 – 8 June 1926) was a British welfare campaigner, anti-war activist, and pacifist. She is primarily remembered for bringing to the attention of the British public, and working to change, the deprived conditions inside the British concentration camps in South Africa built to incarcerate Boer and African civilians during the Second Boer War.

All illustrations present.
Ex Library copy.
135mm x 200mm

R3,000