The Great Boer War - Byron Farwell

The Great Boer War (1899 - 1902) - more properly the Great Anglo-Boer War - was one of the last romantic wars pitting a sturdy stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British Empire at its peak of power and self-confidence. It was fought in the barren vastness of the South African veldt and it produced in almost equal measure extraordinary feats of personal heroism unbelievable examples of folly and stupidity and many incidents of humour and tragedy. Byron Farwell traces the war's origins the slow mounting of the British efforts to overthrow the Afrikaners the bungling and bickering of the British command the remarkable series of bloody battles that almost consistently ended in victory for the Boers over the much more numerous British forces political developments in London and Pretoria the sieges of Ladysmith Mafeking and Kimberley the concentration camps into which Boer families were herded and the exhausting guerrilla warfare of the last few years when the Boer armies were finally driven from the field.

TITLE: The Great Boer War

AUTHOR: Byron Farwell

SKU: 9781848840140

PUBLISHER: Pen & Sword Books Ltd

DATE PUBLISHED: 16/07/2009

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 512

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 156 mm x 234 mm