Publisher's Synopsis
Those were glorious days-days when one could thoroughly enjoy warfare-a wild gallop over the veldt, a good fight in the open, and the day won by the best men. In these days war is robbed of all its glory and romance. It is now but a dyke-maker's job, and a dirty one at that; but much as the soldier may dislike this method of warfare, it has come to stay, and we must make the best of a bad job, adapt ourselves to the new conditions, and by sticking it out, as we have always done, wear down the foe.
