Author: Barr, Damian.
Title: You Will Be Safe Here.
Description: Bloomsbury. London 2019 stated 1st edition, first printing. 327pp paperback. 0.4kg. Neat ownership inscription ffep, spine curved, VG condition. ISBN: 9781408886090 Parallel stories between the Bloemfontein Concentration Camp in 1901, where Sarah v.d. Watt and her son are promised they will be safe, and the New Dawn Safari Training Camp. 2010, where they 'make men out of boys'. Guaranteed. Author, although not South African, spent extensive time here researching both the Boer War and its concentration camps as well as the concept of training camps designed to drill in the toughness and discipline formerly instilled by military National Service to enable them to survive in an increasingly violent society.

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