The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, no end of a lesson. The public expected it to be over by Christmas, but it proved to be the longest (two and three-quarter years), the costliest (over 200 million...Loe edasi...
A BATTLE FOR THE HEART OF A COUNTRY AT WAR WITH ITSELFPraise for Wilbur SmithA master storyteller Sunday TimesNo one does adventure quite like Smith Daily MirrorBest historical novelist Stephen King South Africa, 1899 - the smouldering hostili...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Dec-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487546274)
The ways in which women have historically authorized themselves to write on war has blurred conventionally gendered lines, intertwining the personal with the political. Women on War in Spains Long Nineteenth Century explores, through feminist lenses...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Dec-2022, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487546281)
The ways in which women have historically authorized themselves to write on war has blurred conventionally gendered lines, intertwining the personal with the political. Women on War in Spains Long Nineteenth Century explores, through feminist lenses...Loe edasi...
A spellbinding new book by the much-acclaimed writer, a journey to South Africa in search of the lost people called the /Xam - a haunting book about the brutality of colonial frontiers and the fate of those they dispossess.In spring 2020, Julia Black...Loe edasi...
A brutal rebellion. Two clashing armies. A battle to decide their fate.South Africa, 1914. Diehard Boer generals led a new rebellion against the British-friendly governments of both Jan Smuts and Louis Botha.General Christiaan De Wets attempt to joi...Loe edasi...
A huge prize awaits them, but only if they can escape.The Second Boer War is finally ending, and for three thieves there is the unexpected bonus of stealing an army payroll so large that they have to bury it outside a Free State town until the heat c...Loe edasi...
This book offers an in-depth examination of the conflict of 1838 to 1840 between the Zulus and the Boers. Lesniewski reflects on the established historiography and reappraises some key conceptions of the war. The conflict has often been seen as a col...Loe edasi...
Edmund Allenby, Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe, as he became later, was the principal British military figure in the Middle East from 1917 to 1919. He fulfilled a similar proconsular role in Egypt from the latter year until 1925. In these...Loe edasi...
Edmund Allenby, Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe, as he became later, was the principal British military figure in the Middle East from 1917 to 1919. He fulfilled a similar proconsular role in Egypt from the latter year until 1925. In these...Loe edasi...
The British Army was shocked by three military defeats in a week in South Africa in late 1899. The commanding General Sir Redvers Buller lost his nerve. Something must be done was the cry across the Empire. Britain sent forth not one, but two militar...Loe edasi...
Mafeking was the longest and the most controversial of the three sieges that began the South African War in 1899. Lasting 217 days, the Siege of Mafeking brought a highly charismatic leader to public attention and involved some controversial practice...Loe edasi...
Mafeking was the longest and the most controversial of the three sieges that began the South African War in 1899. Lasting 217 days, the Siege of Mafeking brought a highly charismatic leader to public attention and involved some controversial practice...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Mar-2018, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Little, Brown Book Group, ISBN-13: 9781472140906)
Winner of the Mbokodo Award for Women in the Arts for Literature, the ATKV (Afrikaans Language and Culture Association) Award for non-fiction and the kykNet/Rapport Award for non-fiction. Here was Emily . . . in these diaries and scrapbooks. An unpr...Loe edasi...
BOOK 2 IN THE EPIC HISTORICAL SAGA OF THE COURTNEY FAMILY, FROM INTERNATIONAL SENSATION WILBUR SMITHSmith will take you on an exciting, taut and thrilling journey you will never forget - SunWith Wilbur Smith the action is never further than the tu...Loe edasi...
When the Boer Republics invaded Natal on the north-east coast of what is now South Africa in 1899, they could have been driven out with nominal casualties. Instead, Britain was to lose nearly 9,000 men killed in action, more than 13,000 to disease an...Loe edasi...
Waged across an inhospitable terrain which varied from open African savannah to broken mountain country and arid semi-desert, the Anglo-Boer wars of 1880 81 and 1899 1902 pitted the British Army and its allies against the Boers commandos.The nature...Loe edasi...
Waged across an inhospitable terrain which varied from open African savannah to broken mountain country and arid semi-desert, the Anglo-Boer wars of 1880 81 and 1899 1902 pitted the British Army and its allies against the Boers commandos.The nature...Loe edasi...
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition Hero of the Empire by Candice Millard, read by Simon Vance.Completely engrossing Andrew RobertsFrom The New York Times bestselling author Candice Millard, this is the gripping true sto...Loe edasi...
