The Boers and the Cause of the War in South Africa [microform]

The Boers and the Cause of the War in South Africa [microform]
Author: John Captain Ross
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2021-09-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781015360150

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War Sketches [microform]

War Sketches [microform]
Author: Hedley V MacKinnon
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 86
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781014034618

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Boer War

Boer War
Author: Thomas Pakenham
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Total Pages: 766
Release: 1992-12-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780380720019

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.

Why the Boers Lost the War

Why the Boers Lost the War
Author: L. Scholtz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2004-05-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 023051331X

Why did the British win the Anglo-Boer War? Although there is truth in the simple statement that they were much stronger than the Boers, it does not explain everything. Therefore, the main focus of this book is to analyse the most important strategic and operational decisions made on both sides, and to measure them according to accepted modern military theory. It is shown that both the British and Boer war efforts were very haphazard at the beginning, but that both learnt as the war went on. In the end, the British got the Boers in a vice from which they could not escape.

The South African War 1899-1902

The South African War 1899-1902
Author: Bill Nasson
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1999-07-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780340614273

The South African War rounded off the British conquest of Southern Africa. Only now, a hundred years later, are some of the more baleful legacies of the war being addressed. This new history is an up-to-date account of the military struggle in South Africa including the whole web of miscalculations and shattered illusions that surrounded it which spread far beyond the battlefields.

The Boer War

The Boer War
Author: Craig Wilcox
Publisher: Craig WIlcox
Total Pages: 106
Release: 1999
Genre: History
ISBN:

Contains a guide to researching the records of those Australians who served in the Boer War, 1899-1902.