Die Boere-Oorlog
Author: Thomas Pakenham. Vertaal deur Leon Rousseau
Publisher: Protea Boekhuis | Jonathan Ball
Edition: Afrikaans Edition, 1999
ISBN: 1 86842 044 2
Language: Afrikaans
Condition: Good. Clean copy with tight binding.
Binding: Hardcover with dustjacket
Pages: 702. Print with images
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Die oorlog wat op 11 Oktober 1899 deur die Boere verklaar is, het die Britte, soos Kipling gesê het, 'geen einde aan 'n les gegee' nie. Dit was die langste, duurste, bloedigste en vernederendste veldtog wat Brittanje tussen 1815 en 1914 gevoer het.
Thomas Pakenham se verhaal is gebaseer op eerstehandse en grootliks ongepubliseerde bronne wat wissel van die private dokumente van die voorste protagoniste tot die herinneringe van oorlewendes van beide kante. Mammoet in omvang en geleerdheid, so lewendig, vinnig bewegend en asemrowend boeiend soos die beste fiksie. Die Boereoorlog is die definitiewe weergawe van hierdie buitengewone konflik - 'n oorlog wat deur hebsug veroorsaak is en gekenmerk word deur byna ondenkbare flaters en wreedhede... en wie se verpletterende gevolge tot vandag toe gevoel kan word.
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Thomas Pakenham's narrative is based on first-hand and largely unpublished sources ranging from the private papers of the leading protagonists to the recollections of survivors from both sides.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.
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