RAGS OF GLORY: A MAJOR NOVEL ABOUT THE BOER WAR BY THE AUTHOR OF 'THE TURNING WHEELS'.

by Stuart Cloete

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• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B000HGIIL0
• Release Date: January 1965
• Publisher: Collins
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

I spent my l5th summer spellbound--I couldn't put it down.

We lived in a split-level house, and because it was warm in the upper part of the house, I had made myself a small nest of a double bed surrounded by curtains in the bottom of the four levels of our house. Every night during my l5th year, I would look forward to climbing down into my nest and becoming engrossed by the novel "Rags of Glory." I couldn't remember who wrote it but I shall never forget that it took me all summer, reading until about 2 a.m. every night to finish this novel. It was really "thick;" I'd say about 2 inches thick. I was in the thick of the civil war every night that summer. I loved it