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The Boer War Book

The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 proved to be the longest, the costliest, the bloodiest and the most humiliating campaign that Britain fought between 1815 and 1914. This history of the war is based largely on private papers of the conflict's leading protagonists.Read More

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  • Foyles

    Featuring previously unpublished sources, this 'enjoyable as well as massively impressive' bestseller is a definitive account of the Boer War (Financial Times)The war declared by the Boers on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campaign that Britain fought between 1815 and 1914.Thomas Pakenham's narrative is based on first-hand and largely unpublished sources ranging from the private papers of the leading protagonists to the recollections of survivors from both sides. Mammoth in scope and scholarship, as vivid, fast-moving and breathtakingly compelling as the finest fiction. The Boer War is the definitive account of this extraordinary conflict - a war precipitated by greed and marked by almost inconceivable blundering and brutalities...and whose shattering repercussions can be felt to this very day.'Not only a magnum opus, it is a conclusive work ... Enjoyable as well as massively impressive' -Financial Times'This is a wonderful book: brilliantly written ... the reader turns each page with increasing fascination and admiration' -A.J.P. Taylor

  • Blackwell

    Thomas Pakenham's classic, bestselling book, repackaged beautifully as an Abacus History Great 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...

  • BookDepository

    The Boer War : Paperback : Little, Brown Book Group : 9780349104669 : 0349104662 : 03 Oct 1991 : Thomas Pakenham's classic, bestselling book, a definitive account of the Boer War.

  • 0349104662
  • 9780349104669
  • Thomas Pakenham
  • 3 October 1991
  • Abacus
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 688
  • New edition
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