title: Trilogy of Deneys Reitz, Commando - Trekking on - No Outspan: A Boer Journal of the Boer War
author: Deneys Reitz
description: Commando is the superb memoir originally written by Deneys Reitz just after the war, when he was barely 21, though it was not published until 1929. It is now reissued as a part of a trilogy under the title Adrift on the Open Veld, with his subsequent memoirs Trekking On and No Outspan...Simply as a document of men at war, Commando is matchless. It is so plainly and beautifully written as to make the reader wonder whether it was really the work of a 21-year-old. The Spectator. Geoffrey Wheatcroft
zlib_text: # TABLE OF CONTENTS
  
  
  [COVER](kindle:embed:0001?mime=image/jpg)
  
  
  [TITLE](part0001.html)
  
  
  [COPYRIGHT](part0002.html)
  
  
  [PREFACE](part0005.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [COMMANDO: A BOER JOURNAL OF THE BOER WAR](part0006.html)
  
  
  
  
  
  [CHAPTER I - ‘MEM’RY’S TOWER’](part0007.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER II - ON THE BRINK](part0008.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER III - TO THE FRONTIER](part0009.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER IV - WE INVADE NATAL](part0010.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER V - A BATTLE](part0011.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER VI - UPS AND DOWNS](part0012.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER VII - AN AFFAIR AT SURPRISE HILL](part0013.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER VIII - A VISIT TO THE TUGELA LINE — TRAGEDY OF THE RED
  FORT](part0014.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER IX - THE BATTLE OF SPION KOP](part0015.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER X - THE REST OF OUR CORPORALSHIP IS DESTROYED](part0016.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER XI - A CAMPAIGN IN THE FREE STATE](part0017.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER XII - THE BRITISH INVADE THE TRANSVAAL](part0018.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER XIII - FARTHER AFIELD](part0019.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER XIV - NEW CONDITIONS](part0020.html)
  
  
  [CHAPTER XV