'What! Another book on the Jameson Raid! Let's hope it will be at least an "astringent" one.' So wrote the South African-born poet and brilliant biographer of Rhodes, William Plomer, to a friend. I, too, hope my book will be astringent. This new edition of Jameson's Raid (first published over twenty years ago) should certainly be rather more astringent than its predecessor. New material of a compelling nature has turned up since I concluded my researches in 1958. Nearly all the fresh evidence tell against the claim of Joseph Chamberlain, the Colonial Secretary, to have been guilty of no complicity whatsoever in the plot that became a raid.

 

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