The Boer War

✍ Scribed by Pakenham, Thomas

• Book ID: 110481045
• Publisher: Abacus
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 3 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780349141947
• ASIN: B013C9QZNG

✦ Synopsis

The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, 'no end of a lesson'. It proved to be the longest, the costliest, the bloodiest and the most humiliating campaign that Britain fought between 1815 and 1914. Thomas Pakenham has written the first full-scale history of the war since 1910. His narrative is based on first-hand and largely unpublished sources ranging from the private papers of the leading protagonists to the recollections of survivors from both sides. Out of this historical gold-mine, the author has constructed a narrative as vivid and fast-moving as a novel, and a history that in scholarship, breadth and impact will endure for many years.

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