The Boer Warby Thomas Pakenham | |
| Category: |
"World History - Military" |
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| Pages: | 618 |
| Year of Publication: | 1979 |
| Date Read: | 01/27/1988 |
| Notes: | The Boers of South Africa responded to Britain's annexation of the gold-and-diamond-rich Transvaal region by declaring war on October 11, 1899. The English believed the fighting would be over by Christmas — never dreaming they were on the brink of one of the longest, bloodiest, most costly and humiliating military campaigns in their history. Mammoth in scope and scholarship, as vivid, fast-moving and breathtakingly compelling as the finest fiction. Pakenham's The Boer War is the definitive account of this extraordinary conflict — a war precipitated by greed and marked by almost inconcievable blundering and brutalities ... and whose shattering repercussions can be felt to this very day. |
| My Rating: | 9 |