The Boer War - Thomas Pakenham

Author:-                            Thomas Pakenham  

ISBN:-                              0-947-46470-0  

Published Date:-              1993  

Edition:-                            2nd  

Pages:-                             304  

Cover:-                             Hard Cover & Jacket  

Size:-                                240x275mm  

Weight:-                           1300g  

Book Condition:-             Very Good  

Dust Jacket Condition:-  Very Good.  Minor shelve wear  

Description:-      Illustrated Edition with over 200 colour and black-and-white photographs and maps, this new edition of an outstanding book makes a unique and invaluable contribution to an understanding of South African history at a time of momentous change.

The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, 'no end of a lesson'.  The public expected it to be over by Christmas.  It proved to be the longest (two and three-quarter years), the costliest (over £200 million),  the bloodiest (al least 22,000 British, 25,000 Boer and 12,000 African lives) and the most humiliating war that Britain fought between 1815 and 1914.