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Historical person
1825–1904
Paul Kruger was president of the South African Republic and a leading Boer political figure during conflict with British imperial power. His leadership is closely associated with the tensions that led to the Second Boer War.
Wilbur Smith’s The Sound of Thunder places Paul Kruger within a narrative shaped by family, marriage and personal loyalty, exploration, travel and cultural encounter, and social change and the pressures of ordinary life. Wilbur Smith’s Fire on the Horizon places Paul Kruger within a narrative shaped by court politics and dynastic power, political ambition and government, and military command and battlefield decision-making. Other novels featuring Paul Kruger include James A. Michener’s The Covenant.
Series
The When the Lion Feeds Sequence follows Sean Courtney and his family through the transformation of southern Africa from the Anglo-Zulu War and the Witwatersrand gold rush to the Second Boer War and the aftermath of the First World War.
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This crossover sequence brings the Ballantyne and Courtney families together during the late nineteenth-century contest for power in Africa. Its action moves from the Mahdist siege of Khartoum to Ethiopia’s resistance to Italian invasion and the opening of the Second Boer War.
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The Soldier’s Son follows Andrew Baird, son of Jack Windrush, as he tries to establish a military identity of his own in the late Victorian empire. His service begins in southern Africa during the Anglo-Zulu War and continues through the First Boer War, the conquest of Upper Burma,…
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Non Fiction
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
