The Boer WarUses firsthand accounts to reconstruct Britain's last great imperial war which proved to be one of the costliest, deadliest, and most humiliating wars in British history |
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User Review - bezoar44 - LibraryThingA vast quantity of meticulous historical research, as well as interviews with the last surviving veterans, underpins this lively history of the Boer War (1899 - 1902). Pakenham's book tells three ... Read full review
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User Review - WouterGil - LibraryThingExcellent book, Very rich in detail. This makes the battles sometimes incomprehensible, but this could be because english is not my mothertongue or because the exact manouevres are not of particular ... Read full review
Contents
Pretoria 2329 December 1898 | 29 |
ROBERTSS ADVANCE | 323 |
27 | 330 |
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| Title | The Boer War |
| Author | Thomas Pakenham |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Random House, 1979 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Sep 13, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0394427424, 9780394427423 |
| Length | 718 pages |
| Subjects | › › › History / Africa / General History / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa History / Modern / 16th Century History / Modern / 20th Century |
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