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...
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...
The Boer War took place between 1899 and 1902, just 15 years before the start of the First World War. Some 180,00 Britons , mainly volunteers , traveled 6,000 miles to fight and die in boiling conditions on the veld and atop ‘kopjes’. O...Loe edasi...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE was born on June 22nd, 1856 at Bradenham in Norfolk, England. After his education he was pushed towards an Army career but failed the entrance exam. Next Haggard was positioned to work for the British Foreign Office but...Loe edasi...
Sir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE was born on June 22nd, 1856 at Bradenham in Norfolk, England. After his education he was pushed towards an Army career but failed the entrance exam. Next Haggard was positioned to work for the British Foreign Office but...Loe edasi...
Completely engrossing Andrew RobertsFrom The New York Times bestselling author Candice Millard, this is the gripping true story of one dramatic - and emblematic - year in the early life of Winston ChurchillAt the age of twenty-four, Winston Chur...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2016, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319308258)
This book explores an Australian regional communitys reaction to, and involvement with, the Boer War. It argues that after the initial year the war became an occasional war in that it was assumed that the empire would triumph. But it also laid the...Loe edasi...
The South African and Vietnam Wars provoked dramatically different reactions in Australians, from pro-British jingoism on the eve of Federation, to the anti-war protest movements of the 1960s. In contrast, the letters and diaries of Australian soldie...Loe edasi...
The South African and Vietnam Wars provoked dramatically different reactions in Australians, from pro-British jingoism on the eve of Federation, to the anti-war protest movements of the 1960s. In contrast, the letters and diaries of Australian soldie...Loe edasi...
E. Maud Graham, Michael Dawson, Catherine Gidney, Susanne M. Klausen
Sari: Wayfarer
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jul-2015, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Alberta Press, ISBN-13: 9781772120530)
A Canadian woman shares her story of traveling to South Africa to teach Boer children in concentration camps following the South African War. As the South African War reached its grueling end in 1902, colonial interests at the highest levels of the...Loe edasi...
E. Maud Graham, Michael Dawson, Catherine Gidney, Susanne M. Klausen
Sari: Wayfarer
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jul-2015, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Alberta Press, ISBN-13: 9781772120554)
A Canadian woman shares her story of traveling to South Africa to teach Boer children in concentration camps following the South African War. As the South African War reached its grueling end in 1902, colonial interests at the highest levels of the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2015, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Penguin Random House South Africa, ISBN-13: 9781770227934)
Much has been written about Vincent van Gogh and his tempestuous relationship with his brother Theo. But few people know that there was a third Van Gogh brother, Cornelis, who was raised in the Netherlands, but worked, married and died in So...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2015, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Penguin Random House South Africa, ISBN-13: 9781770227927)
Much has been written about Vincent van Gogh and his tempestuous relationship with his brother Theo. But few people know that there was a third Van Gogh brother, Cornelis, who was raised in the Netherlands, but worked, married and died in So...Loe edasi...
When the Boer Republics invaded Natal in 1899, the invaders could have been driven out with casualties measured in hundreds. Instead Britain was to lose nearly 9,000 men killed in action, more than 13,000 to disease and a further 75,000 wounded and s...Loe edasi...
When the Boer Republics invaded Natal in 1899, the invaders could have been driven out with casualties measured in hundreds. Instead Britain was to lose nearly 9,000 men killed in action, more than 13,000 to disease and a further 75,000 wounded and s...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2014, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN-13: 9780773596597)
Charles Henry Tweddell (1869-1921) was one of several thousand Canadian soldiers who fought with British forces in the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). A methodical diarist, Tweddell recounts his year of service from the time he left Quebec City un...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2014, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN-13: 9780773596603)
Charles Henry Tweddell (1869-1921) was one of several thousand Canadian soldiers who fought with British forces in the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). A methodical diarist, Tweddell recounts his year of service from the time he left Quebec City un...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Sep-2014, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780750957663)
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 withh...Loe edasi...
World War I is one of the iconic conflicts of the modern era. For many years the war at sea has been largely overlooked; yet, at the outbreak of that war, the British Government had expected and intended its military contribution to be largely naval....Loe edasi...
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, resourcefulne...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Oct-2013, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781135271817)
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 th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Oct-2013, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781135271749)
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 th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2013, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781134529780)
First published in 2006. This study looks at a time when Victorian Britain was a time for self-doubt. There was an increasing fear that the place in the sun that had so long been hers was being shadowed by the rising powers of Germany and the Unite...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2013, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781134529711)
First published in 2006. This study looks at a time when Victorian Britain was a time for self-doubt. There was an increasing fear that the place in the sun that had so long been hers was being shadowed by the rising powers of Germany and the Unite...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2013, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781431405442)
This is the first general history of the concentration camps of the Anglo-Boer or South African War in over fifty years, and the first to use in depth the very rich and extensive official documents in South African and British archives. It provides a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Jun-2013, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Penguin Random House South Africa, ISBN-13: 9781770225329)
In October 1899, the twenty-four-year-old Winston Churchill sailed for South Africa as war correspondent for the Morning Post to report on the Anglo-Boer War. When he returned the following year, it was as a military celebrity. Thi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Jun-2013, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Penguin Random House South Africa, ISBN-13: 9781770225336)
In October 1899, the twenty-four-year-old Winston Churchill sailed for South Africa as war correspondent for the Morning Post to report on the Anglo-Boer War. When he returned the following year, it was as a military celebrity. Thi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2013, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Penguin Random House South Africa, ISBN-13: 9781770225015)
After the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer War, hundreds of women left their countries for South Africa, some in search of adventure, others with a strong desire to help the victims of war. They came from all over the world from Britain and its c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2013, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Penguin Random House South Africa, ISBN-13: 9781770225008)
After the outbreak of the Anglo-Boer War, hundreds of women left their countries for South Africa, some in search of adventure, others with a strong desire to help the victims of war. They came from all over the world from Britain and its c...Loe edasi...
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 o...Loe edasi...
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 o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Dec-2012, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Dundurn Group Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781459705784)
The story of a little-known Canadian victory in the Second Boer War. In the fall of 1899, Britain entered the Second Anglo-Boer War in South Africa confident that its army would make short work of a collection of armed farmers. However, initial confr...Loe edasi...
