The Illustrated Boer War (Abridged) Thomas Pakenham
The Illustrated Boer War (Abridged) Thomas Pakenham
Softcover, ISBN 9781868420742
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, 1993
Condition: Very good+. The pictorial laminated wraps have slight wear and the book pages are clean, clear and intact and the spine remains undamaged. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied.
First published in 1979, Thomas Packenham’s The Boer War is still considered the standard text on this subject and this sensitively abridged illustrated edition brings it to a wider public. His narrative is based on first-hand and largely unpublished sources.
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 His narrative is based on first-hand and largely unpublished sources.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.
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.
