The lost history of stars

By Dave Boling

Subjects: South africa, fiction, Fiction, general, Large type books, Internment camp inmates, FICTION -- Historical, South African War, 1899-1902 -- Concentration camps -- Fiction, South african war, 1899-1902, fiction, Internment camp inmates -- South Africa -- Fiction, South African War (1899-1902), Fiction, Afrikaners -- Social conditions -- Fiction, Concentration camp inmates -- South Africa -- Fiction, Afrikaners, Social conditions, Concentration camps, South Africa, Concentration camp inmates, South African War, 1899-1902

Description: Lettie and her family are Afrikaners, Dutch settlers in turn-of-the-century southern Africa. When the British Empire wages a brief but brutal two-year war against them, Afrikaner forces will lose thirty-five hundred soldiers, but more than twenty-six thousand Dutch women and children will have died of disease and starvation in British concentration camps by the war's end. Taken from their farm and forced into one such camp, Lettie and her family fight to survive in the face of unimaginable conditions.--Adapted from dust jacket.