The Boer War
by Pakenham, Thomas
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very good/good
- Seller
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Paris, France
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About This Item
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1980. Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Quarto. Hardcover. Very good/good. brown cloth, gilt lettering, mylar-wrapped dust jacket, 659 pp, contains the cards, postcards, portrait, obituary and funeral service card of previous owner Sir Dick Stratton, including offical House of Commons memo with letterhead.
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- San Francisco Book Company (FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 62112
- Title
- The Boer War
- Author
- Pakenham, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Quarto
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld and Nicolson
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- military history, south africa, england
- Bookseller catalogs
- History;
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