Great Boer War

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The Great Boer War (1899 – 1902) – more properly the Great Anglo-Boer War – used to be one of the crucial last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British Empire at its peak of power and self-confidence. It used to be fought in the barren vastness of the South African veldt, and it produced in almost equal measure strange feats of personal heroism, fantastic examples of folly and stupidity, and many incidents of humor and tragedy. Byron Farwell traces the war’s origins, the slow mounting of the British efforts to overthrow the Afrikaners, the bungling and bickering of the British command, the remarkable series of bloody battles that just about consistently ended in victory for the Boers over the a lot more a lot of British forces, political developments in London and Pretoria, the sieges of Ladysmith, Mafeking and Kimberley, the concentration camps into which Boer families were herded and the exhausting guerrilla warfare of the previous few years when the Boer armies were after all driven from the field.

The Great Boer War is a definitive history of a dramatic conflict by a master story teller and historian. Byron Farwell served as an officer in the North African and Italian campaigns in World War II and also in the Korean War. He used to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1964, and is the creator of Queen Victoria’s Little Wars, also published by Pen & Sword.

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