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The Great Boer War
by Farwell, Byron
- Used
- as new
- Paperback
- Condition
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 1848840144
- ISBN 13
- 9781848840140
- Seller
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Forestdale, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
Pen & Sword, 2009. New book, 495 pages. The Great Boer War (1899 - 1902) - more properly the Great Anglo-Boer War - was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British Empire at its peak of power and self-confidence. It was fought in the barren vastness of the South African veldt, and it produced in almost equal measure extraordinary feats of personal heroism, unbelievable examples of folly and stupidity, and many incidents of humour and tragedy. Byron Farwell traces the war's origins, the slow mounting of the British efforts to overthrow the Afrikaners, the bungling and bickering of the British command, the remarkable series of bloody battles that almost consistently ended in victory for the Boers over the much more numerous British forces, political developments in London and Pretoria, the sieges of Ladysmith, Mafeking and Kimberley, the concentration camps into which Boer families were herded and the exhausting guerrilla warfare of the last few years when the Boer armies were finally driven from the field.. Soft Cover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- Viceroy Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005512
- Title
- The Great Boer War
- Author
- Farwell, Byron
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New As New
- ISBN 10
- 1848840144
- ISBN 13
- 9781848840140
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword
- Place of Publication
- South Yorkshire England
- Date Published
- 2009
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- BOER WAR HISTORY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Boer War;
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