The Memoirs of Paul Kruger: Four Times President of the South African Republic: Told by Himself - Hardcoverby Paul Kruger (Author) Paul Kruger was the dominating figure of Boer and therefore South African history of the nineteenth century. His life spanned the time of the Great Trek the European settlement of the interior right up to the end of the Second Boer War, and the shadow of his political career stretched deep into the twentieth century. His memoirs, dictated while in exile shortly after the end of the Second Boer War, provide a remarkable and