The Boer War
Author(s): Thomas Pakenham
The Boers of South Africa responded to Britain's annexation of the gold-and-diamond-rich Transvaal region by declaring war on October 11, 1899. The English believed the fighting would be over by Christmas -- never dreaming they were on the brink of one of the longest, bloodiest, most costly and humiliating military campaigns in their history.Mammoth in scope and scholarship, as vivid, fast-moving and breathtakingly compelling as the finest fiction. Thomas Pakenham's The Boer War is the definitive account of this extraordinary conflict -- a war precipitated by greed and marked by almost inconcievable blundering and brutalities . . . and whose shattering repercussions can be felt to this very day.
General Information
- :
- : Little, Brown Book Group Limited
- : Abacus
- : 0.502
- : 01 October 1992
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Thomas Pakenham
- : Paperback
- : 01
- : English
- : 659
- : JWL
- : Section: 16, bw
More About The Product
Thomas Pakenham's classic, bestselling book, repackaged beautifully as an Abacus History Great
Thomas Pakenham is the author of The Mountains of Rasselas, The Year of Liberty, The Scramble for Africa, Meetings with Remarkable Trees and Remarkable Trees of the World. He divides his time between London and Ireland. He is married to the writer Valerie Pakenham and they have four children.
