Boering Reading

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Craig wonders:
"...which raises a question that has haunted me (and possibly Hag as
well) for some time. To whit, why is there little or no trace of the
Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1903) in TRP, specifically in _V._? TRP
is not unconcerned with our little of the tip of Africa here, as his
fascination with Namibian history shows, yet there is little mention
in his work of a war which saw civilian populations drawn into a war
between arguably the best-equipped army in the field in its day and a
group of poorly-trained guerillas equipped with obsolete weaponry."



I don't know about TRP, but for a possibly interesting sidelight on these
matters, there are several stories set during that war by, of all people,
Rudyard Kipling.  One, I recall, had to do with Boers being herded into
concentration camps (before the term became truly and literally lethal) and
the presence of an American technician (who's helping with the weaponry, natch).

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)