Wilbur Smith · 1977 · overland

Wilbur Smith's 1977 Courtney saga. Mark Anders comes home from the killing fields of the First World War to a South Africa on the brink of upheaval. Bound to the fortunes of General Sean Courtney, he fights to save a wild corner of Zululand from destruction - and is swept into the bloody miners' revolt on the Witwatersrand, where loyalties are tested to breaking.

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   France

   In the mud and slaughter of the Western Front, the young soldier Mark Anders serves as a deadly sniper - and survives, scarred, to carry the ghosts of the trenches home with him when the Great War at last grinds to its end.

2. 2
   Zululand

   Back in South Africa and drawn into the orbit of General Sean Courtney, Mark returns to the Zululand of his boyhood, fighting to protect a stretch of wild bush from men who would strip it bare.

3. 3
   The Witwatersrand

   When the miners of the Witwatersrand rise in revolt, Mark is swept into the streets of the Rand rebellion - caught between the general he serves and the ideals he holds, in a reckoning that tests every loyalty he has.