From Capetown to Ladysmith (Paperback)

Excerpt: ...into them a cross-fire at a few hundred yards. Down went the colonel dead; down went fifty men. For a second a few of the rawer hands in the regiment wavered; it might have been serious. But the rest clung doggedly to their position under cover; the officers brought the flurried men up to the bit again. The mountain guns turned vengeful towards the spot whence the fire came, and in a few minutes Pg 90 there was another spreading, blackening patch of veldt