The Boer War
by Pakenham, Thomas
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG+/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0297819143
- ISBN 13
- 9780297819141
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About This Item
HARDBACK, "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 2nd.* Date of Publication: 1998 (1997)* Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.* Binding and cover condition: Brown cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. Light crease to spine. VG+* Jacket condition: Monochrome photo-illustrated dust wrapper, red and green titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £30.00. Absolutely minimal, shelf wear to top edges and to head of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers (green). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to top & bottom edges, top edge dusty, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: Four x 8pp blocks of b/w photos, several b/w cartoons and maps within text.* Pages: 578 pp. text. lxxxviii pp., dates, sources, bibliography, notes, index & blank pages at rear.* Description: Thomas Pakenham has written the first full-scale documentary history of the war to be attempted since 1910. The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 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 (two and three-quarter years), the costliest (over £200 million) the bloodiest (at least 22,000 British, 25,000 Boer and 12,000 African lives) and the most humiliating war Britain fought between 1815 and 1914.* A NEAR FINE text copy of the 1st/2nd. with some minor faults in a VG+ protected dust jacket.*
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
- Cocksparrow Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 380
- Title
- The Boer War
- Author
- Pakenham, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG+/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edn, 2nd. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 0297819143
- ISBN 13
- 9780297819141
- Publisher
- Jonathan Ball
- Place of Publication
- London UK 665
- Date Published
- 1998-01-01
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