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In late-apartheid South Africa, Pieter Fourie is a gifted young teacher from a poor family whose future seems set at last. Then conscription tears him out of that life and sends him into the machinery of the border war. Hardened by training and drawn into the legendary 32 Battalion, Pieter learns the brutal grammar of loyalty, endurance, and command in a world where competence can mean survival and obedience can cost a man his soul. But the war's deepest wound comes after the fighting, when the battalion is discarded and its men are sent to Pomfret, a poisoned settlement where betrayal settles into everyday life. When the Buffalo Fell is a historical novel about soldiering, class, brotherhood, memory, and the long human cost of being used by history and then left behind.