The Boer War Thomas Pakenham

The Boer War 

Author: Thomas Pakenham  

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London England 

Edition: First, 1979

ISBN: 0 297 77395 x

Language: English    

Condition: Good. Clean copy with tight binding. Previous owners & stamp 

Binding:  Hardcover with dustcover  

Pages: 659. Print with images & maps  

Additional Information

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Thomas Pakenham's narrative is based on first-hand and largely unpublished sources ranging from the private papers of the leading protagonists to the recollections of survivors from both sides.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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