Hill of Squandered Valour: The Battle for Spion Kop, 1900

by Ron Lock

Book Overview

The Battle of Spion Kop was fought during the campaign to relieve Ladysmith, South Africa, after the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State had gotten a jump on the British Empire and besieged a British army in the town. It was the single bloodiest episode in the campaign, as well as a harbinger of the bitter and desperate fighting still to come in the Second Boer War.

Spion Kop, just northeast of Ladysmith, was the largest hill in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161200007X
• ISBN13: 9781612000077
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Casemate
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"