Trekking On
in the company of brave men
Deneys Reitz
This wonderful book recounts Deneys Reitz’s remarkable experiences during the fateful years of the 1914 rebellion, military action in German West and East Africa, and trench warfare in the fields of France – where the author ended the war leading a Scottish battalion to the Rhine after the armistice.
978-0-956774-53-8 | Paperback | SA History | 312 pages | R230
Deneys Reitz was a Boer soldier who fought in the Second Boer War for the South African Republic against the British Empire. After a period of exile in French Madagascar, he returned to South Africa, where he became a lawyer and served as the Deputy Prime Minister.