The Boer War
Pakenham Thomas
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Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: George Weidenfeld And Nicolson Ltd
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition: Reprint
Description: 659 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.
Publishers Description: The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, no end of a lesson. It proved to be the longest, the costliest, the bloodiest and the most humiliating campaign that Britain fought between 1815 and 1914. Thomas Pakenham has written the first full-scale history of the war since 1910. His narrative is based on first-hand and largely unpublished sources ranging from the private papers of the leading protagonists to the recollections of survivors from both sides. Out of this historical gold-mine, the author has constructed a narrative as vivid and fast-moving as a novel, and a history that in scholarship, breadth and impact will endure for many years.
ISBN: 9780349104669
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