The Boer War

Hard Cover

First Edition 1997

Thomas Pakenham

.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Thomas Pakenhams narrative is based on first-hand and largely unpublished sources ranging from the private papers of the leading protagonists to the recollections of survivors from both sides.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 Waris the definitive account of this extraordinary conflict a war precipitated by greed and marked by almost inconceivable blundering and brutalitiesand whose shattering repercussions can be felt to this very day.