With "Bobs" and Krüger

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With "Bobs" and Krüger: Experiences and Observations of an American War Correspondent in the Field with Both Armies. by Frederic William Unger

First published in 1901 by Henry T. Coates and Company, Philadelphia, Unger was a correspondent in South Africa for The Daily Express, London.

Table of Contents

1. South African Peculiarities
2. Klondyke to Cape Town
3. Getting a War License under Difficulties—The First Coup
4. Off to the Front
5. Soldier of the Queen
6. An Armored Train Reconnaissance
7. Beginning All Over Again
8. The Afrikanders and their Feelings
9. Some Types of War Correspondents
10. At the End of a Wire" at Last
11. The Times " Mess and a Few Adventures
12. Under Arrest Again
13. The Battle of Paardeburg
14. Chickens and Chicanery
15. Cronje's Laager and His Surrender
16. Osfontein and Some F.xasperating Experiences
17. The Turning-Point of the War—the Battle of Poplar Grove
18. The Occupation of Blocmfontein
19. Observations in the Free State
20. Through the Enemy's Lines with a Message for the Queen
21. A Full License at Last
22. Two Bloemfonteins
23. Kipling Again, and Some Bloemfontein Items
24. The Free State Girls
25. Two Other Americans — Captain Slocum, United States Attache, and Burnham the Scout
26. With General French after General De Wet
27. An Echo of " The Shot Heard Round the World,"
28. War on Women, Children and Homes
29. The General Advance Northward from Bloemfontein
30. Farewell to the Army and the Free State
31. Conversion of " Loot" into Literary Capital
32. The Land of Delay, the City of Tomorrow, and the House of Next Month
33. The Land of the Milreis
34. By Train to Pretoria
35. In the Shadow of Surrender
36. The Last Day at Pretoria
37. A Chapter of Coincidences
38. The Travelling Railway Carriage Capital at Machadodorp
39. "At the End of a Wire" Once More
40. Stealing a "Scoop" in Order to Benefit its Owner
41. Life at Machadodorp
42. Begg, the Spy, Gets Back at Me
43. With the Burghers on the Veldt
44. Generals Botha, Delarey, and the Dynamite Brigade
45. A Commandeering Expedition of No Account
46. The Last Day with Kriiger—a Tight Place
47. Secretary Reitz Gives Me a Lesson in American History
48. The Brains of the Transvaal Gang
49. Conclusion

This work is in the public domain in countries where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less. It is not necessarily in the public domain in the United States if published from 1923 to 1977. For a US-applicable version, see {{PD-1996}}.