The Boer War

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Featuring previously unpublished sources this enjoyable as well as massively impressive bestseller is a definitive account of the Boer War (Financial Times) The war declared by the Boers on 11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 Thomas Pakenhams narrative is based on first-hand and largely unpublished sources ranging from the private papers of the leading protagonists to the recollections of survivors from both sides. Mammoth in scope and scholarship as vivid fast-moving and breathtakingly compelling as the finest fiction. The Boer War is the definitive account of this extraordinary conflict - a war precipitated by greed and marked by almost inconceivable blundering and brutalities...and whose shattering repercussions can be felt to this very day. Not only a magnum opus it is a conclusive work ... Enjoyable as well as massively impressive - Financial Times This is a wonderful book: brilliantly written ... the reader turns each page with increasing fascination and admiration -A.J.P. Taylor