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Book of the Dead

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 September 2018

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It's our last chance to get the whole business of killing back onto a healthy basis. Imagine in the spanking dawn of our century a youth with dark fiery eyes, a lopsided tangle of curly hair awkward in its profusion, body and limbs … still those of a mere stripling. But what experience was available to temper that growing strength! The Boer War, three long years of fighting at the cost of ten thousand lives: scene of the first concentration camps (the British), the first guerrilla warfare (the Boers). Can you doubt that our youth fought on the side of those doughty Boers in their struggle for freedom?

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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 1972

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