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Boer War Paperback - 1992

by Thomas Pakenham


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The war declared by the Boers of South Africa on October 11, 1899, gave the British, as Kipling said, 'No end of a lesson.' The public expected it to be over by Christmas. It proved to be the longest, the costliest, the bloodiest and most humiliating war that Great Britain fought between 1815 and 1914.

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The Boers of South Africa responded to Britain's annexation of the gold-and-diamond-rich Transvaal region by declaring war on October 11, 1899. The English believed the fighting would be over by Christmas -- never dreaming they were on the brink of one of the longest, bloodiest, most costly and humiliating military campaigns in their history.

Mammoth in scope and scholarship, as vivid, fast-moving and breathtakingly compelling as the finest fiction. Thomas Pakenham's The Boer War is the definitive account of this extraordinary conflict -- a war precipitated by greed and marked by almost inconcievable blundering and brutalities . . . and whose shattering repercussions can be felt to this very day.

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IN THE SMALL HOURS, Sir Alfred Milner, High Commissioner for South Africa and Lieutenant-Governor of Cape Colony, was woken by a bright light in his eyes.

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  • Title Boer War
  • Author Thomas Pakenham
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd Print
  • Pages 784
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
  • Date December 1, 1992
  • ISBN 9780380720019 / 0380720019
  • Weight 1.7 lbs (0.77 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.25 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 3.18 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects South African War, 1899-1902
  • Dewey Decimal Code 968.048
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