The Last Stand at Majuba Hill (Simon Fonthill Series)
'Take Sharpe and put him nearly a hundred years in the future and in the Boer War and you get the flavour of this book... Well worth a read from any fan of adventure series such as Cromwell's favourite creation or Hornblower'   -- Coventry Evening Telegraph 20070120   'A page-turner'   -- Newbury Weekly News 20070125   'A ripping yarn. Standing alongside Wilbur Smith and Bernard Cornwell, Wilcox writes with an intimate knowledge of the African continent, an encyclopaedic knowledge of the Victorian era when the British Empire was at its peak, and all the dash of a great adventurer'   -- Nottingham Evening Post 20070106   'Another full-blooded Boy's Own adventure... an enjoyable romp'   -- Huddersfield Daily Examiner 20070105   'Classic wartime adventure in the tradition of Bernard Cornwell, CS Forester and Allan Mallinson'   -- Bolton Evening News 20070106--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.