Gail Nattrass

Gail Nattrass lectured in the history department at the School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, for twenty years. She is the author of The Rooiberg Story, the co-editor with S. B. Spies of Jan Smuts: Memoirs of the Boer War and a contributor to They Shaped Our Century and Leaders of the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902.

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