The Great War
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The Great War

Letters and Diaries of a South African family 1913-1920

  1. 250 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Great War

Letters and Diaries of a South African family 1913-1920

About this book

From 1913 to 1920, the Molteno-Murray family published a private journal called "Chronicle of the Family". It appeared three times a year, providing news of the family scattered throughout South Africa, Britain, and Kenya - a means, as one of the editors put it, "of preventing the younger members growing up strangers to each other." When war was declared in 1914, the Chronicle began to include letters from family serving in the military and medical corps in diverse contexts, including the war fronts in German East Africa and South West Africa, the trenches of France, and naval battles. News from home continued with accounts of life on a Karoo farm, a horse trek in Basotuland, a leftist political rally in London, and reminiscences of older family members.

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Information

Publisher
Mvusi Books
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9780986979156
eBook ISBN
9780986979170

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright page
  4. Contents
  5. INTRODUCTION
  6. 1913. LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS
  7. GENERAL NEWS
  8. KAMFER’S KRAAL
  9. JANET – A SKETCH
  10. 1912–1913
  11. 1914
  12. 1914 THE BOER REBELLION
  13. 1914–1916 LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS
  14. 1914–1918 THE WAR IN GERMAN EAST AFRICA
  15. 1915 THE WAR IN GERMAN SOUTH WEST AFRICA
  16. 1915 THE WAR IN EUROPE
  17. 1916 THE WAR IN EUROPE
  18. 1917 THE WAR IN EUROPE
  19. 1918 THE WAR IN EUROPE
  20. 1916–1920 LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS
  21. THREE 19TH CENTURY REMINISCENCES
  22. REFERENCES
  23. Back cover