The Boer War

Pakenham, Thomas

ISBN 10: 0349104662 / ISBN 13: 9780349104669

Published by Time Warner Books Uk 0, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Boer War
• Publisher: Time Warner Books Uk 0
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0349104662
• ISBN 13: 9780349104669
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Used - Very Good

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Synopsis

Featuring previously unpublished sources, this 'enjoyable as well as massively impressive' bestseller is a definitive account of the Boer War (Financial Times)

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Thomas Pakenham's narrative is based on first-hand and largely unpublished sources ranging from the private papers of the leading protagonists to the recollections of survivors from both sides. Mammoth in scope and scholarship, as vivid, fast-moving and breathtakingly compelling as the finest fiction. The Boer War is the definitive account of this extraordinary conflict - a war precipitated by greed and marked by almost inconceivable blundering and brutalities...and whose shattering repercussions can be felt to this very day.

'Not only a magnum opus, it is a conclusive work ... Enjoyable as well as massively impressive' -
Financial Times

'This is a wonderful book: brilliantly written ... the reader turns each page with increasing fascination and admiration' -A.J.P. Taylor

About the Author

Thomas Pakenham is the author of The Mountains of Rasselas, The Year of Liberty, The Scramble for Africa, Meetings with Remarkable Trees and Remarkable Trees of the World. He divides his time between London and Ireland. He is married to the writer Valerie Pakenham and they have four children.