
Boer War
Featuring previously unpublished sources, this ''enjoyable as well as massively impressive'' bestseller is a definitive account of the Boer War (Financial Times)
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 19...
Featuring previously unpublished sources, this ''enjoyable as well as massively impressive'' bestseller is a definitive account of the Boer War (Financial Times)
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 19...