To the bitter end: Photographic history of the Boer War 1899-1902 - Lee

2002 hardcover A4 size in great condition. 226 pages.  In 1889 George Eastman revolutionized photography by patenting the celluloid film. This, along with innovations such as the folding pocket camera, signifi ed a tremendous growth in the popularity of amateur photography, and soon all major occurrences were captured on film. The first of these was the Boer War. Using these valuable and in some cases previously unpublished phtographs, (this book) empha sizes particular aspects of the Boer War - the foreign volunteers, the concentration camps, the hospital treatment and the eighteen months of fighting that went on after the war was officially ended - and matches photographic images with historical documents to give the clearest, most evocative picture of the war ever produced."