| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xiv, 495 pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes index and bibliography: pages 470-477. |
| Contents |
Prologue -- The Birth of a people -- Voortrekkers and their republics -- The First Anglo-Boer War -- The Jameson raid -- Moving towards war -- Eve of war -- Act I War begins -- Talana: the first battle -- Elandslaagte -- The Battle of Ladysmith -- Buller -- Methuen -- Magersfontein -- Stormberg Junction -- Before Colenso -- Colenso -- Black week -- Act II Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener -- Tabanyama: prelude to Spion Kop -- Spion Kop -- After Spion Kop: Vaal Krantz -- The Great flank march -- The Siege of Kimberley -- Paardeberg -- The Siege of Ladysmith -- Bloemfontein -- Decisions at Kroonstad -- The Boer revival -- On the march to Pretoria -- Mafeking -- After Pretoria: Roodewal and Brandwater basin -- Advance to Komatipoort -- The End of the second act -- Act III Commandos in Cape Colony -- Smut's invasion of the Cape -- Fighting the guerrillas -- Soldiering on the veld -- Guerrilla life -- The Concentration camps and Emily Hobhouse -- The Concentration camps: the ladies committee -- Prisoners of war -- Vereeniging: the bitter end -- Epilogue: the dust settles. |
| Subject |
South African War, 1899-1902.
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South Africa -- History.
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| Added Title |
Great Anglo Boer war |
| ISBN |
0060112042 16.95 |
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9780060112042 |
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