sleep-fighting

Updated: May 4, 2025

He had located De Wet at a place called Mushroom Valley, and parts of the Commander-in-Chief's forces had been sent to make a surrounding movement. During the all-night trek from Winburg to Mushroom Valley I had a first thorough experience of the true horrors of sleep-fighting. It was bitterly cold cold as the Free State night on the veld knows how to be.

Eric Moore Ritchie - With Botha in the Field