To the Bitter End – Emanoel Lee

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 pounds), the bloodiest (at least 22,000 British, 25,000 Boer and 12,000 African lives) and the most humiliating war that Britain fought between 1815 and 1914.

The text is largely written around a unique collection of photographs taken during the Boer War, the majotiry previously unpublished. Thus the text concentrates on the photographs at hand, but the book also broadly outlines the sequence of events of the war.