The Boer War By Thomas Pakenham

The Boer War By Thomas Pakenham

Softcover

ISBN 0747409765

Publisher: Sphere Books Ltd 1991

Used - Good. This book is in very good condition. The wraps have some slight/limited signs of wear and tear ,the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Tanning/Browning of pages.

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 1914.Thomas Pakenham has written the first full-scale history of the war since 1910. His narrative is based on first-hand and largely unpublished sources ranging from the private papers of the leading protagonists to the recollections of survivors from both sides. Out of this historical gold-mine, the author has constructed a narrative as vivid and fast-moving as a novel, and a history that in scholarship, breadth and impact will endure for many years.