The Boer War

by Pakenham, Thomas

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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by Thomas Pakenham

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This is a mint-condition first edition of The Boer War, the 1979 masterpiece by the British historian Thomas Pakenham. First editions of this book are rare—and expensive. This war, declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899, gave the British, as Kipling said, 'no end of a lesson'. It was the longest, costliest, bloodiest, and most humiliating campaign fought by Britain… Read more about this item
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New York: Random House, 1994. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Illustrated American edition. Quarto. 304pp. Illustrated with black-and-white, and color photographs, drawings and maps. Fine in fine dustwrapper.
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London, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball | Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979 '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 his narrative is based on first-hand and largely unpublished sources.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 has combed the original British documents in the Public Record Office and the material in South African archives. He has traced the private… Read more about this item
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Weidenfeld and Nicolson. Very Good. 160 x 250mm. Hardback. 1979. 659 pages. Cancelled stamp on ffep and half-title - no other sign of being ex-library. DJ shelf worn.<br>The war declared by the B oers on 11 October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, 'no en d of a lesson'. It proved to be the longest, the costliest, the… Read more about this item
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London, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball | Macdonald & Co., 1979 '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 his narrative is based on first-hand and largely unpublished sources.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 has combed the original British documents in the Public Record Office and the material in South African archives. He has traced the private… Read more about this item
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by Thomas Pakenham

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by Thomas Pakenham

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Random House, September 1994. First Thus. Cloth . Very Good/Very Good. Quarto. {9' x 10 & 3/4'} In clean, bright dustjacket. Front flap is not clipped. Brown umber cloth covered boards with stamped gold lettering along spine. First illustrated U.S. edition with this number string: 98765432, indicating first printing for RH editions of this vintage. Tight binding, bottom… Read more about this item
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Johannesburg & Cape Town: Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2004. Second impression, 2004 (first published in the UK by Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1979). Hardback. 660pp. Dust jacket. Thomas Pkenham has written the first full-scale documentary of the war to be attempted since 1910. His narrative is based on first-hand and often unpublished sources. This is a narrative as vivid and fast-moving… Read more about this item
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The Boer War

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New York: Perennial, 1992. 6th Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6x1x9. Sixth printing. Edge wear, pages toned. 1992 Trade Paperback. xxix, 718 pp. "The Boers of South Africa responded to Britain's annexation of the gold-and-diamond-rich Transvaal region by declaring war on October 11, 1899. The English believed the fighting would be over by Christmas -- never dreaming they… Read more about this item
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