World War 1 Diary of Private Brooks on the Western Front: Day to day diary of a private soldier in the trenches (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780957648906)

Biography of the editor. Peter Boshoff, the eldest of five sons was born in 1943 and brought up in the Pretoria district, Transvaal, South Africa. After school he attended the South African Air Force Gymnasium. Later he studied medicine and qualified in 1968. In his training he was taught never to rely on second hand knowledge but to investigate and try out everything before committing himself. He became a general medical practitioner, later employed by Anglo American Corporation. In 1994 he was co-author in a research article on familial non-polyposis cancer of the colon, compiling the family tree of the family involved. This whetted his appetite for writing. Unfortunately work commitments did not allow enough time to start writing until after his retirement. "The truth is out there, you just have to separate the wheat from the chaff."