Download or read book Anecdotes of the Anglo Boer War written by Rob Milne and published by Covos Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This often touching, sometimes hilarious book does not focus on dates or military strategy, nor does it attempt to condemn or vindicate the people involved. Rather, it focuses on the human interest stories that flavored this, "The Last of the Gentlemen's Wars". From the humorous story of the Boers firing shells laden with plum pudding on Christmas day into the beseiged town of Ladysmith to the tragic Legend of the Flowers, this volume is sure to entertain, educate and inspire.
Download or read book Military Stories and Anecdotes Boer War written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features military stories and anecdotes of the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), fought between the Boer republics of the Orange Free State and the Transvaal and Great Britain in southern Africa. Highlights the actions of the Bushveldt Carbineers, a British unit. Details the horses and small arms used during the war.
Download or read book Innocent Blood written by Graham Jooste and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innocent Blood recounts the heart-rending stories of Cape rebels and republican soldiers executed by the British during the Anglo Boer War. These previously untold tales evoke vivid scenes of the brutality that accompanied complete lack of justice, while sketching the tragic details of the suffering and emotional devastation that were the real-life stories touched by these executions. Captivating as these stories are, they were researched extensively - the authors spent months travelling to the sites that witnessed the stories. They were then also condoned by two professors of history.
Download or read book The Anglo Boer War in 100 Objects written by The War Museum of the Boer Republics and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anglo-Boer War in 100 Objects brings the victories and the tragedies and the full extent of the human drama behind this war to life through 100 iconic artifacts.While a Mafeking siege note helps to illustrate the acute shortages caused by the siege, a spade used by a Scottish soldier at Magersfontein and the boots of a Boer soldier who died at Spion Kop tell of the severity of some of the famous battles.The book follows the course of the war but also highlights specific themes, such as British and Boer weaponry, medical services and POW camps, as well as major figures on both sides.The text is interspersed with striking historical images from the museums photographic collection. More than 200 additional objects have been included to help tell the story of a conflict that left an indelible mark on the South African landscape.
Download or read book Anglo Boer War 1899 1902 Stories written by "Prop" Preller Geldenhuys and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Rules written by James V. Byrom and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Britain went to war against the Boer republics in South Africa in 1899 it ripped the heart out of the Afrikaner people. The British, signatories to the first Hague Convention which set the rules for war, ignored those rules in their desperate efforts to defeat an already broken people. This fact-based story follows the trials and tribulations of Mattie Taljaard, a Boer woman, and John Errington, an English-speaking colonial who volunteered to fight for the British. As the tides of war ebbed and flowed they took Mattie and John through pain, suffering and tragedy until finally bringing them together in strange and moving circumstances. - Three maps.
Download or read book A Century of Anglo Boer War Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sad Memories A Story of the Anglo Boer War in Verse written by H. SHEPHERD (of the North Lancashire Regiment.) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Boer War written by Martin Bossenbroek and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) is one of the most intriguing conflicts of modern history. It has been labeled many things: the first media war, a precursor of the First and Second World Wars, the originator of apartheid. The difference in status and resources between the superpower Great Britain and two insignificant Boer republics in southern Africa was enormous. But, against all expectation, it took the British every effort and a huge sum of money to win the war, not least by unleashing a campaign of systematic terror against the civilian population. In The Boer War, winner of the Netherland's 2013 Libris History Prize and shortlisted for the 2013 AKO Literature Prize, the author brings a completely new perspective to this chapter of South African history, critically examining the involvement of the Netherlands in the war. Furthermore, unlike other accounts, Martin Bossenbroek explores the war primarily through the experiences of three men uniquely active during the bloody conflict. They are Willem Leyds, the Dutch lawyer who was to become South African Republic state secretary and eventual European envoy; Winston Churchill, then a British war reporter; and Deneys Reitz, a young Boer commando. The vivid and engaging experiences of these three men enable a more personal and nuanced story of the war to be told, and at the same time offer a fresh approach to a conflict that shaped the nation state of South Africa.
Download or read book Good Bye Dolly Gray written by Rayne Kruger and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Death of the Last Republic written by Peter Gibbs and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rustenburg at War written by Lionel Wulfsohn and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Biograph in Battle written by William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1901 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1901 and now a rare collector's item, this book is a cameraman's diary kept during the Biograph Company's filming on the battlefields of the Boer War. It is now published in a facsimile edition, with a specially commissioned introduction from film historian Richard Brown.
Download or read book Khaki Cameos written by Pam McFadden and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Death of the Last Republic written by Philip Gibbs and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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).
Download or read book Boer War Illustrated written by Thomas Pakenham and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
