Woodrow Wilsons call to Congress in the Spring of 1917 to declare war on Germany ultimately changed the course of The First World War which together with the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Wilsons Anglophilia including time spent in the United...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Dec-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487546267)
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 Spain’s Long Nineteenth Century explores, throug...Loe edasi...
Baden-Powell achieved great prominence, as well as notoriety, in both his military and scouting lives, driven largely by a constant yearning to win his mother’s approval. Robert Baden-Powell was Britain’s first celebrity.A conflicted characte...Loe edasi...
After six battles, the war of 1838 between the Zulu people and the invading Boers and their Port Natal allies reached a stalemate. The Boers occupied half the Zulu kingdom and Dingane, the Zulu monarch, was discredited. The invasion in 1837 o...Loe edasi...
This book offers an account of this understudied conflict dating from the early stage of European colonialism in Africa, and unpacks the complex regional relationships between different communities in the first half of 19th century....Loe edasi...
Almost one hundred and twenty five years ago, a Scottish adventurer attempted to expand the British Empire in South Africa with the backing of a mere 500 men. He was part of a conspiracy of entrepreneurs, gold magnates and politicians, each of whom h...Loe edasi...
A biography of Edmund Allenby with a focus on his eight years in the Middle East 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...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...
A new biography of a remarkable Englishwoman, Emily Hobhouse, that draws on significant and previously unknown sources, including her diaries and a draft autobiography....Loe edasi...
In 1915, at the height of World War I, the Central Powers sent a secret mission, led by Oskar Ritter von Niedermayer and Werner Otto von Hentig, to the court of the emir of Afghanistan, Habibullah Khan. Jointly operated by the governments of Germany...Loe edasi...
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...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 sol...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.T...Loe edasi...
Thrilling, tremendously enjoyable The New York Times A nail-biting escape story Financial Times At the age of twenty-four, Winston Churchill already believed he was destined for greatness. This is the incredible story of how one incred...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’. Of the over 2...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...
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...
A narrative and analysis of 123 battles of the Boer War, including battles that were fought without bullets as unbeknown to many - battles are not only fought on the blood-stained battlefield.--Publishers description....Loe edasi...
Woodrow Wilsons call to Congress in the Spring of 1917 to declare war on Germany ultimately changed the course of The First World War which together with the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Wilsons Anglophilia including time spent in the United...Loe edasi...
PJ van der Merwe [AUTHOR] PJ van der Merwe [AUTHOR], Roger B Beck [English Translation] Roger B Beck [English Translation]
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Dec-2022, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Sun Press, ISBN-13: 9781998951147)
This work on the pioneering history of the Boers in the Cape Colony (South Africa) before the Great Trek (1835-1846) is primarily based on research in various archives and libraries....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Dec-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487546267)
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 Spain’s Long Nineteenth Century explores, throug...Loe edasi...
Baden-Powell achieved great prominence, as well as notoriety, in both his military and scouting lives, driven largely by a constant yearning to win his mother’s approval. Robert Baden-Powell was Britain’s first celebrity.A conflicted characte...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Jonathan Cape, ISBN-13: 9781787332171)
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 20...Loe edasi...
This work begins in August 1900 during the war in South Africa, when mounted Boer commandos ranging across the veldt superseded pitched battles of massed armies and heavy weaponry. Thanks to his flair for organization, Baden-Powell is asked to create...Loe edasi...
After six battles, the war of 1838 between the Zulu people and the invading Boers and their Port Natal allies reached a stalemate. The Boers occupied half the Zulu kingdom and Dingane, the Zulu monarch, was discredited. The invasion in 1837 o...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jul-2021, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN-13: 9780806169088)
This book spotlights Britains citizen army to show who these volunteers were, why they enlisted, how they were trainedand how they quickly became disillusioned when they found themselves committed not to the supposed glories of conventional...Loe edasi...
This book offers an account of this understudied conflict dating from the early stage of European colonialism in Africa, and unpacks the complex regional relationships between different communities in the first half of 19th century....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Apr-2021, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Fred Cooper, ISBN-13: 9781916017412)
This book records the courage, bravery and exploits of the forgotten Volunteers who fought and died in the Boer War when their country called them to arms....Loe edasi...
The Anglo-Zulu War was a defining episode in British imperial history, and it is still a subject of intense interest. The Zulu victory at Isandlwana, the heroic British defense of Rorkes Drift and the eventual British triumph are among the most clos...Loe edasi...
Almost one hundred and twenty five years ago, a Scottish adventurer attempted to expand the British Empire in South Africa with the backing of a mere 500 men. He was part of a conspiracy of entrepreneurs, gold magnates and politicians, each of whom h...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Sep-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: 30 Degrees South Publishers, ISBN-13: 9781928359838)
This comprehensive military atlas covers every aspect of the Boer War in some 230 full-colour maps, diagrams and detailed ORBATs. Maps covering the conflict on a strategic, operational and tactical level guide the reader through each stage of the war...Loe edasi...
A biography of Edmund Allenby with a focus on his eight years in the Middle East 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...Loe edasi...
Edinburgh is forever bound to The Royal Scots, the oldest in the British Army and now part of The Royal Regiment of Scotland. For a period in the early twentieth century, it also had a Highland battalion, the kilted 9th Royal Scots, which became affe...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...
A new biography of a remarkable Englishwoman, Emily Hobhouse, that draws on significant and previously unknown sources, including her diaries and a draft autobiography....Loe edasi...
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Using hundreds of extracts from his speeches and writings, and illustrated with rarely seen photos, this engrossing biography brings Churchill the man into focus. From his childhood, military service in India and the Su...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...
In 1915, at the height of World War I, the Central Powers sent a secret mission, led by Oskar Ritter von Niedermayer and Werner Otto von Hentig, to the court of the emir of Afghanistan, Habibullah Khan. Jointly operated by the governments of Germany...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
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A new biography of a remarkable Englishwoman, Emily Hobhouse, that draws on significant and previously unknown sources, including her diaries and a draft autobiography....Loe edasi...
saadame teile pakkumise kasutatud raamatule, mille hind võib erineda kodulehel olevast hinnast
The ignominious rout of a British force at the battle of Majuba on 27 February 1881 and the death of its commander, Major General Sir George Pomeroy-Colley, was the culminating British disaster in the humiliating Transvaal campaign of 1880–1881 in So...Loe edasi...
Rorke’s Drift Diary is a unique firsthand account of the battles of Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift, which took place in Zululand on January 22 1879. Written by Captain Penn Symons, one of the few British survivors of Isandwana,...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
Even though the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 ended more than 110 years ago, no extensive study on the sites of remembrance of this war that covers the country as a whole and is based on methodological research has thus far been published. This book is...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 sol...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 and...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.T...Loe edasi...
Thrilling, tremendously enjoyable The New York Times A nail-biting escape story Financial Times At the age of twenty-four, Winston Churchill already believed he was destined for greatness. This is the incredible story of how one incred...Loe edasi...
The Casemate Short History Series presents readable and entertaining introductions to military history topics. British soldiers have been known as Tommies for centuries, but the nickname is particularly associated with the British infantryman in the...Loe edasi...
A biography that captures a life of adventure and military daring across the American West, Africa, Mexico and the Klondike follows a man, who, turning his friend Theodore Roosevelt into a listener and inspiring another friend to found the Boy Scouts...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’. Of the over 2...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...
More than 100 years ago, Harry Harbord Morant, the Breaker, was shot by a firing squad. Thus began his ascension to Australian national hero. Workhouse-born Edwin Murrant, educated by the Freemasons, emigrated on a £1 passage to Australia...Loe edasi...
‘The South African Flag shall yet wave from Table Bay to the Zambezi, be that end accomplished by blood or by ink. If blood it is to be, we shall not lack men to spill it’ Rev S J Du Toit, one of the founding fathers of the Afrikaner Bond, speaking i...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Sep-2016, Hardback, Kirjastus: Allen Lane, ISBN-13: 9780241280973)
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Completely engrossing Andrew Roberts From 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 Churchill At the age of twen...Loe edasi...
A fresh, nuanced look at an extraordinary woman and her lifelong fight for justice. Defying the constraints of her gender and class, Emily Hobhouse travelled across continents and spoke out against oppression. A passionate pacifist and a feminist, s...Loe edasi...
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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Mar-2016, Hardback, Kirjastus: 30 Degrees South Publishers, ISBN-13: 9781928211280)
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In Victorian times, it was to an officer’s advantage to be good at sketching. This subject was not only on the syllabus at Sandhurst but also at the Army Staff at Camberley until the Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902, and later. The reason was the British...Loe edasi...
Matabele War are as fascinating and controversial as those of the first, and it was a dirty, hard-fought guerrilla war, more akin to the African bush wars of the 1960s and ’70s than those waged at the height of the colonial period....Loe edasi...
