Mafeking Memories

Author : Frederick Saunders
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838636350
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mafeking Memories written by Frederick Saunders and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saunders gives us a vivid and unique soldier's-eye view of the siege, the daily life, the hunger, the regular bombardment from long-range Boer guns, the forays against the Boers, and the antics of Baden-Powell, who tried to keep up the morale of the garrison. Saunders's descriptions of the countryside are graphic too, revealing an artist's sensitivity. His account nicely supplements others written by journalists and by prominent officials at Mafeking. The editor, who obtained the memoir from the Saunders family, provides an introduction that places the siege in its historical context.

Author : Edmund Yorke
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750957662
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Battle Story: Mafeking 1899-1900 written by Edmund Yorke and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Siege of Mafeking remains one of the most renowned actions of the Second Boer War, with the British Army defeating a Boer force of up to 8,000 men with barely 1,500 troops. In a siege that lasted 217 days, Robert Baden-Powell and his troops withheld attack from the Boers against all the odds and Mafeking was finally relieved on 17 May 1900. It caused much public excitement in Victorian Britain, with Baden-Powell emerging as a national hero. If you want to understand what happened and why – read Battle Story.One of the most famous, if contoversial, battles of the Second Boer War – memorialised across South Africa, Canada and the United Kingdom The Siege of Mafeking was instrumental in turning Robert Baden-Powell (later founder of the Scouts) into a national hero Includes significant contribution from South African, Canadian and Australian troops

Author : Jeremy A. Foster
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 9780822959588
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Washed with Sun written by Jeremy A. Foster and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2008 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking mainly at the years following the British victory in the second Boer War, from 1902 to 1930, Foster examines the influence of painting, writing, architecture, and photography on the construction of a shared, romanticized landscape subjectivity that was perceived as inseparable from “being South African”, and thus helped forge the imagined community of white South Africa.

Author : Jeremy Foster
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822980355
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Washed with Sun written by Jeremy Foster and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa is recognized as a site of both political turmoil and natural beauty, and yet little work has been done in connecting these defining national characteristics. Washed with Sun achieves this conjunction in its multidisciplinary study of South Africa as a space at once natural and constructed. Weaving together practical, aesthetic, and ideological analyses, Jeremy Foster examines the role of landscape in forming the cultural iconographies and spatialities that shaped the imaginary geography of emerging nationhood. Looking in particular at the years following the British victory in the second Boer War, from 1902 to 1930, Foster discusses the influence of painting, writing, architecture, and photography on the construction of a shared, romanticized landscape subjectivity that was perceived as inseparable from "being South African," and thus helped forge the imagined community of white South Africa. In its innovative approach to South Africa's history, Washed with Sun breaks important new ground, combining the persuasive theory of cultural geography with the material specificity of landscape history.

Author : Nomboniso Gasa
Publisher : HSRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780796921741
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in South African History written by Nomboniso Gasa and published by HSRC Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying CD-ROM contains the complete text of the printed volume.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Author : Ford Madox Ford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memories and Impressions written by Ford Madox Ford and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sarah Wilson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 373266175X
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South African Memories written by Sarah Wilson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-04-06 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: South African Memories by Sarah Wilson

Author : Duncan William Grinnell-Milne
Publisher : London : The Bodley Head
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baden-Powell at Mafeking written by Duncan William Grinnell-Milne and published by London : The Bodley Head. This book was released on 1957 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Piers Brendon
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307388417
Total Pages : 850 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997 written by Piers Brendon and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD NOTABLE BOOK After the American Revolution, the British Empire appeared to be doomed. Yet it grew to become the greatest, most diverse empire the world had seen. Then, within a generation, the mighty structure collapsed, a rapid demise that left an array of dependencies and a contested legacy: at best a sporting spirit, a legal code and a near-universal language; at worst, failed states and internecine strife. The Decline and Fall of the British Empire covers a vast canvas, which Brendon fills with vivid particulars, from brief lives to telling anecdotes to comic episodes to symbolic moments.