The Victor of Nooitgedacht (Penning)

The Louis Wessels Commando Series - #4

The commando of Louis Wessels continues to roam the South African countryside, joining whichever division needs them most. But defeat and loss, ruin and devastation seem to be the order of the day. Blikoortje and Jan Potgieter are captured, Wonderfontein is pillaged and ruined, and the church is desecrated. The ravages of this ghastly war are pressing in on all sides and the reality of total defeat looms large in all its starkness. The English Minster Brodrick had declared in the English parliament that "never - had a more civilized war been waged!" Yet all the evidence showed the English army to be full of wantonness, lustful pillaging, savagery, destructiveness, and pitiless cruelty towards women, children and the defenceless.

• Author: Lawrence Penning
• Pages: 144
• Paperback
• Published in 2008