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...
