The Boer War.
by PAKENHAM, THOMAS:
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- Hardcover
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 1979 1st edition.. 10.0 x 7.0 inches. In brown cloth covers with gilt to spine. With pictorial dustwrapper. Pictorial endpapers. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Spine slightly faded and bumped at top end. With protective plastic wrap. Not price clipped). A clean and tight copy. 659 pp. With b/w photographs. Comprehensive history of the Boer War. Includes information from letters and diaries and personal reminiscences recorded from survivors.
Synopsis
The war declared by the Boers of South Africa on October 11, 1899, gave the British, as Kipling said, 'No end of a lesson.' The public expected it to be over by Christmas. It proved to be the longest, the costliest, the bloodiest and most humiliating war that Great Britain fought between 1815 and 1914.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop (GB)
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- Title
- The Boer War.
- Author
- PAKENHAM, THOMAS:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Weidenfeld and Nicholson. 1979 1st edition.
- Keywords
- Military Subjects THOMAS PAKENHAM, Boer War, letters, diaries, remiscesnces, recorded, survivors, photographs Military Boer War Africa dustwrapper first edition
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