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  Coveyduck In Anglo Boer War 

27th December 2001
CANADIAN TROOPERS IN ANGLO-BOER WAR BATTLING COMMANDOS IN A RACE FOR FIFTEEN MILLION DOLLARS' WORTH OF LOOTED BULLION ARE FEATURED IN NEW HISTORICAL NOVEL, "KRUGER'S GOLD".

A new historical novel by Sidney Allinson, titled KRUGER'S GOLD, is set in South Africa in 1902, during the Second Anglo-Boer War.

Lt. Harry Lanyard is a Canadian serving in the British Army with Howard's Scouts, an actual elite mounted unit of the time. He is released from a charge of murdering a prisoner so he may lead a patrol to recover fifteen million dollars' worth of gold bullion looted by "Oom Paul" Kruger, fugitive President of the Transvaal Republic. To do it, he must battle tough burgher commandos, roving bandits, hostile civilians, and a vengeful enemy spy among his own mutinous troopers. His staunchest supporter is Australian Sergeant Ned Coveyduck. Lanyard also strives to regain the love of his half-American Boer sweetheart, who is now allied with a ruthless Czarist agent.

The novel is based on many actual events, and meticulously researched in everyday details of the period. It conveys the war from both the Boer and British points of view. Though written as fast-paced fiction, KRUGER'S GOLD also conveys factual military realities and social conditions of the era, including British "scorched earth" policy, civil war among the Afrikaners, the oft-forgotten role of Anglo-South Africans, and the political split between Canadians for and against the war. It reveals the horrors of concentration camps and ruthless guerilla fighting, while over 27,000 white civilians and 30,000 black Africans died in the "last of the gentleman's wars".

Sidney Allinson is author of four previous published books, including "THE BANTAMS: The Untold Story of World War One, and JEREMY KANE: a Canadian historical adventure novel of the 1837 Mackenzie Rebellion and its brutal aftermath in the penal colonies of Australia. He is a past Director of the Royal Canadian Military Institute, Toronto, and now lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

"KRUGER'S GOLD" (Available September, 2001) 298 pages, maps, glossary, participants, bibliography. ISBN 0-7388-6585-0 Hardback ($25), 07388-6586-9 Trade Softback ($16). LOC 2001116470.
Published by Xlibris Corp.,436 Walnut
Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA.
http://www.bowlerhat.com.au/sawvl/Orders@Xlibris.com
Phone 1-609-278-0075.
Soon also available on-line via Amazon, Coutts, Indigo, Borders, Barnes & Noble.

Free sample chapter at: www.xlibris.com/KrugersGold.html
To contact the author,
tel/fax: (250) 478-0457
e-mail: sidneya@shaw.ca

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