I've read Conan Doyle's book, "The Great Boer War", and some modern books
that discuss what happened in the guerilla war that the Boer's waged after
the fall of Johannesberg and Praetoria. The modern (in 1978) books
mentioned
that the British put the entire population in concentration camps and
conducted
a scorched earth policy against the Boer guerillas, who eventually
surrendered.
The books mention that more people, especially blacks, died in the
concentration camps than were actually killed in the fighting, but the
books provided no details.
Can someone please recommend books or articles that go into detail about
the living conditions in the British concentration camps?
The books I read also mentioned that this was not the first modern use
of concentration camps: apparently Spain used them in Cuba in 1897. For
comparison, it would also be instructive to read something about the
Spanish concentration camps.
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Ignorantly,
Allan Adler <ara@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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