Kruger, Kommandos & Kak - Debunking the Myths of The Boer War - Ash, Chris

The second Boer War is the most important war in South African history; indeed, without it, South Africa would likely have not existed. But its also one of the least understood conflicts of the era. Over a century of Leftist bleating and insidious, self-serving revisionism, first by Afrikaner nationalists and then by the apartheid regime, has left the layman with a completely skewed view of the war. Incredibly, most people will tell you that the British attacked the Boers to steal their gold, and that when the clueless, red-jacketed Tommies advanced under orders of bumptious, incompetent British generals they were mowed down in their thousands. Others think of the conflict in terms of Britain against South Africa and many believe that the Boers actually won the war; the marginally more enlightened explain away the Boer defeat by claiming it took millions of British troops to beat them, or that it was only the genocide of the concentration camps which forced the plucky Boers to throw in the towel.

Softcover. English. 30 Degress South. 2014. ISBN: 9781920143992. 560 pp. NEW. Book No: 2507377