The Boer War by Pakenham, Thomas - Illustrated Edition
The Boer War by Pakenham, Thomas - Illustrated Edition
Hardcover, ISBN 9780947464707
Publisher: Jonathan Ball, 1993 first Illustrated edition.
Used - Very Good+. This book is in an excellent condition. The DJ has some very slight signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains perfect. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.
This is the illustrated edition of this major work.
The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British as Kipling said, 'no end of a lesson.'
Thomas Pakenham has written the first full-scale documentary history of the war to be attempted since 1910. His narrative is based on first-hand and largely unpublished sources.
He throws new light on the blunders of the British generals, and writes movingly about the plight of the 100 000 black Africans who served both armies. And he explains the final political victory of the Boers - how they lost the war but won the peace.
The original work is "considered the standard text on the subject and this sensitively abridged illustrated edition brings it to a wider public. " Over 200 color and black-and-white photographs and maps. Color & B&W Illustrations
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Thomas Pakenham, Lord Longford, was born in 1933. He spent eight years researching and writing The Boer War. He is also the author of The Scramble for Africa, which won the W.H. Smith Award and the Alan Paton Award, and Remarkable Trees of the World.
