The Boer War

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The Boers of South Africa responded to Britains 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 were on the brink of one of the longest bloodiest most costly and humiliating military campaigns in their history. Mammoth in scope and scholarship as vivid fast-moving and breathtakingly compelling as the finest fiction. Thomas Pakenhams The Boer War is the definitive account of this extraordinary conflict -- a war precipitated by greed and marked by almost inconcievable blundering and brutalities . . . and whose shattering repercussions can be felt to this very day.