BOER BELLE describes the personal experiences of the Boer matron Elsje de Kock (1842-1940) and her remarkable family before, during and after the brutal Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902. It presents an intimate view of events and the impact of their struggle against half-a-million British troops sent to subdue them on the thousands of Afrikaner guerillas and their families engaged in a war that brought untold misery to all caught up in it. Largely overshadowed by the nightmarish conflict of the First World War that followed barely a decade later, the Boer War was characterized by the barbarity of the...