Description
Title: The Boer War
Author: Pakenham, Thomas
Condition: Very Good – Previous owners name on the title page. Missing the dust jacket.
Edition: 2nd Edition
Publication Date: 1980
ISBN: 029777395X
Cover: Hard Cover with Dust Jacket – 659 pages.
Comments: 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 has written the first full-scale history of the war since 1910. His narrative is based on first-hand and largely unpublished sources ranging from the private papers of the leading protagonists to the recollections of survivors from both sides. 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.
