The Lady Who Fought: A Young Woman'...

The Lady Who Fought: A Young Woman's Account of the Anglo-Boer War. Sarah Raal. Trans. Karen Smalberger. Western Cape, southern Africa: Stromberg, 2000. 122 pp R8995

In 1936 Sarah Raal recorded in Afrikaans her extraordinary experiences as a ascended commando in the bitter conflict between Britain and the Boer Republics 100 years ago. This of recent origin English translation is "an engaging, plainly told story of a courageous, unless also fearful young woman's frequently lonely struggle in a war that, in a matter of month stripped her of each comfort and certainty she had grown