The Boer War A Military History The Illustrated Edition

Author : John Wisser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781583548
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boer War - A Military History - The Illustrated Edition written by John Wisser and published by . This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully illustrated throughout with contemporary maps, photographs, charts and prints, this authoritative military history of the Second Boer War was written by Captain John P. Wisser, a West Point tactician and academic in 1901. Included are the origins of the war, preliminary operations of the hostilities and comprehensive information of the battles and engagements, including Spion Kop, Elandslaagte, Magersfontein, the siege of Mafeking, and the final relief of Ladysmith.

Author : Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472810171
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boer War 1899–1902 written by Gregory Fremont-Barnes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorious in its previous campaigns in Africa against native armies, Britain now confronted an altogether different foe. The Boers proved to be formidable opponents, masterfully compensating for inferior numbers with grim determination, resourcefulness and strong religious faith. Their mobility, expert use of cover, and knowledge of the terrain, in which they employed powerful long-range magazine rifles, gave them initial advantages. By contrast the British suffered from inadequate transport, insufficient mounted troops and poor intelligence. Despite marshalling the immense resources of their empire, the British were to be severely tested in a war which one general described as 'the graveyard of many a soldier's reputation'.

Author : Christopher Wilkinson-Latham
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780850452570
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boer War written by Christopher Wilkinson-Latham and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the armies that fought in the Boer War. Both sides are covered, and the campaigns summarised. Uniforms are shown in full illustrated detail.

Author : Kevin F. Kiley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780754819011
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Military Uniforms of the 19th Century written by Kevin F. Kiley and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crimean War is sometimes considered to be the first modern conflict and introduced technical changes which affected the future course of warfare.

Author : John Gooch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135271747
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boer War written by John Gooch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collections of essays by leading British and South African scholars, looking at the Boer War, focuses on three aspects: how the British Military functioned; the role of the Boers, Afrikaners and Zulus; and the media presentation of the war to the public.

Author : Ben Viljoen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Reminiscences of the Anglo-Boer War (Illustrated) written by Ben Viljoen and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the Boer war both governments began with bluff, but they couldn't stay there; the military tension was too much for them" ―William James - A Classic Book! - Includes the Original Illustrations

Author : G. D. Scholtz
Publisher : Protea Boekhuis
ISBN 13 : 9781919825120
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 written by G. D. Scholtz and published by Protea Boekhuis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise history of the Anglo-Boer War, a prize-winning work which was originally written in Afrikaans, is the ideal book for those who want an overview of the military fortunes of the two warring parties. Now richly provided with maps and illustrations, it is one of the most accurate short histories of this important three-year war. The author, G. D. Scholtz, was a Afrikaner historian of great stature, who saw the Anglo-Boer War as a struggle for liberation, a fight for Boer freedom and independence. His original text has been sensitively translated into English by historian Bridget Theron, who is a lecturer at the University of South Africa. It is an accessible work that may provide echoes to the American wars of independence.

Author : Byron Farwell
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783830611
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Boer War written by Byron Farwell and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2009-09-19 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the battle for independence from the British Empire in South Africa by “a vivid chronicler of military forces, generals, and wars” (Kirkus Reviews). The Great Boer War (1899-1902), more properly known as 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 humor 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. The Great Boer War is a definitive history of a dramatic conflict by the author of Queen Victoria’s Little Wars, “a leading popular military historian” (Publishers Weekly).

Author : Denis Judd
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085772231X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boer War written by Denis Judd and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boer War of 1899-1902 was an epic of heroism and bungling, cunning and barbarism, with an extraordinary cast of characters - including Churchill, Rhodes, Conan Doyle, Smuts, Kipling, Gandhi, Kruger and Kitchener. The war revealed the ineptitude of the British military and unexpectedly exposed the corrupt underside of imperialism in the establishment of the first concentration camps, the shooting of Boer prisoners-of-war and the embezzlement of military supplies by British officers. This acclaimed book provides a complete history of the Boer War - from the first signs of unrest to the eventual peace. In the process, it debunks several of the myths which have grown up around the conflict and explores the deadly legacy it left for southern Africa.

Author : Sir Arthur Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781520836393
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Boer War (Annotated and Illustrated) written by Sir Arthur Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. The Great Boer War is a non-fiction work on the Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle and first published in 1900 by Smith, Elder & Co. By the end of the war in 1902 the book had been published in 16 editions, constantly revised by Doyle. The Introduction describes the book as:"A very thorough account, including tables at the end of those killed or wounded up until the 8th September when he left South Africa. This account is compiled with as much accuracy as was attainable at this date, and with as much detail as a single volume will permit. In frequent conversations with Boers, Conan Doyle has endeavoured to get their views upon both political and military questions. Often the only documents he had to consult were the convalescent officers and men under his care, therefore some errors may have crept in. The closing scenes of the Boer War have necessarily been treated with less detail than the earlier."The book was completed in September 1900, at a time when the British believed that the war was over.However, the war continued until 1902.