A History of Rhodesia
By Howard Hensman. This earliest history of the British colony of Rhodesia, written only eight years after the first white settlement and based on exclusive access to the files of Cecil John Rhodes’s British South Africa Company. This book became the benchmark for all other works dealing with the founding of Rhodesia. It is more than the exciting history of the Pioneer Column: it details the tumultuous events of the Matabele Wars, the last stand of Allan Wilson, Rhodes’s personal intervention to the Matabele to halt the fighting, and much more.
The Story of the Nations: South Africa
By George Theal. Here's the fascinating history of South Africa up until abut 1899. It contains the full story of the history of this remarkable nation from the earliest times to the late 19th century, written in an era when political correctness did not distort, twist or deny historical facts and reality.
The Great Boer War
By Arthur Conan Doyle. Better known for his Sherlock Holmes books, this Conan Doyle history book was one of the first complete chronicles of the Anglo-Boer War—written as it happened. First published in 1902, Conan Doyle’s book became the standard by which all other histories of that conflict became to be measured.