The Boer War: South Africa 1899–1902

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Bloomsbury USA, Oct 25, 1999 - History - 160 pages
"The Boer War involved all the peoples of South Africa and many of the people of what is now the Commonwealth as well as volunteers from the USA, Russia and from many European countries. This account offers a straightforward narrative of the war in the words of the men who fought it, revealing the birth of a new form of warfare at the close of the 19th century. Book jacket."--Jacket.

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6
PART THREE
18
PART FOUR
34
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About the author (1999)

Martin Marix Evans was born in the opening days of the Second World War. He studied at universities in the United States and Britain, and graduated in Law from the University of Cambridge before entering a career in publishing. He established his own firm of book packagers in 1989. He is the author of guides to the D-Day operations, Ypres and Operation Market Garden as well as two books on Paris and one on English canals. His work for Osprey includes Passchendaele and the Battles of Ypres 1914-18 and Retreat, hell! We just got here! The American Expeditionary Force in France 1917-1918,

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