Mafeking: A Diary of the Siege

Author - Major F D Baillie

Publisher - Naval and Military Press: 2009, Facsimile reprint

A new softcover book.

Pages viii + 299 with numerous sketch illustrations. 

The siege of Mafeking is a legendary event in British history, and not only for its military importance in reversing the fortunes of the Boer War and giving Britains national morale a massive fillip at a very low ebb. Its lasting importance, however, lies in the innovative defence conducted by its commander, Col. Robert Baden-Powell, who later found fame as the founder of the Boy Scout movement. This book is an account of the siege by an expert insider who endured the experience at Baden-Powells side. Major F. D. Baillie was a former Hussar officer who later became a war correspondent for the Morning Post newspaper. His illustrated book shows both the privations of the siege, and also the ingenuity employed by Mafekings defenders an armoured train, an old Naval cannon, emergency bank notes, and fake barbed wire to successfully withstand the siege.

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