The First Boer War (Echoes of War) by Lehmann, Joseph
The First Boer War (Echoes of War) by Lehmann, Joseph
Softcover, ISBN 9780907675532
Publisher: Buchan & Enright, 1985
Used - Good. This book is in good condition. The wraps have some slight/limited signs of wear and is beautifully protected with a stick on plastic cover. The pages are overall slightly tanned but is clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged.
In this definitive study of a small war, Professor Lehmann describes the events that culminated in a unique people confronting and confounding an empire at the height of its wealth and power. Having trekked north in appalling conditions after the British abolition of slavery in Cape Colony, the fiercely independent Boers rose in revolt against inept taxation by the British, who annexed the Transvaal to further their aspiration for a Federation of South African States. At this time little gold had been found in the territory and the British felt only contempt for simple farmers who, they thought, could do little but drive cattle, shoot natives and cling to the fanatical religious belief in a flat earth.
