Fury’s War – An Epic Tale of Two Lives on Opposing Sides of a Bitter Conflict
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This is a story of love, endurance, and courage that brings light to the darkness of war. With fiction woven into the backdrop of actual events, the reader is taken on an emotional journey filled with intrigue and suspense. Fury’s War will hold you captive to the end.
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Fourie, or Fury as he is known by the British, is among the most wanted of men. Rose, an English beauty pursued by an officer intent on capturing Fury, finds herself in a precarious position. Bound by a love that cannot be denied and separated by a war intent on destroying them, Rose and Fury find ways to meet and the line between patriotism and treachery becomes blurred.
From the greed and horror of the Anglo-Boer War, to the misery and death of the concentration camps and the bravery on the battlefield, comes a story of indominable courage that will hold you captive to the very end.
This is a story that weaves fictional characters into actual events that occurred during the second Anglo Boer War, without in any way modifying the role of real people involved or altering the actual outcome of historical events. Only the first battle scene is entirely fictional; all others are as recorded in history.
| Weight | 497.70 g |
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| Dimensions | 22.8 × 15.2 × 2.2 cm |
| Cover: | Softcover |
| Published By: | Aspire Club |
| ISBN: | 9780796153746 |
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Buxton Gray
Buxton was born in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. His interest in the Boer war was sparked as a young boy by his grandmother, an Afrikaans woman whose maiden name was Fourie. She faithfully shared tales of the Anglo-Boer War and of Jopie Fourie, who was executed for treason in 1914 by, among others, General Jan Smuts.
As part of his research he visited many Boer war sites, including a number of locations on which concentration camps were located. He was appalled by the dereliction of the sites given the magnitude of the tragedy in which close to 50,000 South Africans, both black and white, lost their lives. The death in the camps – close to half of Afrikaner children under the age of 12 – and the fear of losing an entire Afrikaner generation, was one of the major drivers behind the ultimate Boer surrender.
One of Buxton’s objectives in writing Fury’s War is to bring to remembrance those who should never be forgotten.
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