Boer War Pakenham Thomas
Boer War Pakenham Thomas The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, 'no end of a lesson'. Thomas Pakenham has written the first full-scale history of the war…
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Boer War Pakenham Thomas
The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, 'no end of a lesson'. Thomas Pakenham has written the first full-scale history of the war since 1910. It proved to be the longest, the costliest, the bloodiest and the most humiliating campaign that Britain fought between 1815 and 1914.
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. His narrative is based on first-hand and largely unpublished sources ranging from the private papers of the leading protagonists to the recollections of survivors from both sides.