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Author : Craig Wilcox
Publisher : Craig WIlcox
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Boer War written by Craig Wilcox and published by Craig WIlcox. This book was released on 1999 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a guide to researching the records of those Australians who served in the Boer War, 1899-1902.
Author : Louis Creswicke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book South Africa and the Transvaal War written by Louis Creswicke and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis Creswicke
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1692 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book South Africa and the Transvaal War (Vol. 1-8) written by Louis Creswicke and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 1692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Louis Creswicke's monumental work, 'South Africa and the Transvaal War' spans eight volumes and provides a detailed account of the events leading up to and during the Second Boer War. Written in a journalistic style, Creswicke's work captures the tension and complexities of this significant historical conflict. The vivid descriptions of battles, political maneuvering, and personal accounts bring to life this pivotal moment in South African history. With a focus on military strategy and the impact on the civilian population, the book offers a comprehensive analysis of the war. Creswicke's attention to detail and dedication to accuracy make this work a valuable resource for students and historians alike. Louis Creswicke, a British author and historian, undertook the monumental task of chronicling the Second Boer War to provide a comprehensive account of the conflict. His background in journalism and keen interest in military history equipped him to undertake this ambitious project. Creswicke's dedication to thorough research and impartial storytelling sets his work apart as a definitive resource on the subject. For readers interested in military history, colonial conflicts, or South African history, 'South Africa and the Transvaal War' is a must-read. Creswicke's detailed narrative and insightful analysis provide a valuable perspective on a pivotal moment in history, making this work essential for understanding the complexities of the Second Boer War.
Author : F. T. Stevens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Complete History of the South African War, 1899-1902 written by F. T. Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean Bou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521197082
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Light Horse written by Jean Bou and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive research from both Australia and Britain, this book is a comprehensive history of the Australian Light Horse in war and peace, from its antecedents in the middle of the 19th century until the disbandment of the last regiment in 1944.
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ISBN 13 : 9780731698523
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (985 download)
Download or read book The Australian Commonwealth Horse written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gregory Fremont-Barnes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472810171
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book The Boer War 1899–1902 written by Gregory Fremont-Barnes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, resourcefulness and strong religious faith. Their mobility, expert use of cover, and knowledge of the terrain, in which they employed powerful long-range magazine rifles, gave them initial advantages. By contrast the British suffered from inadequate transport, insufficient mounted troops and poor intelligence. Despite marshalling the immense resources of their empire, the British were to be severely tested in a war which one general described as 'the graveyard of many a soldier's reputation'.
Author : Byron Farwell
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783830611
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (838 download)
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).
Author : Craig Wilcox
Publisher : Craig WIlcox
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Australia's Boer War written by Craig Wilcox and published by Craig WIlcox. This book was released on 2002 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has drawn on primary sources from Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom to produce a book that encompasses not only Australia's experience of the war, but tells the stories of individuals including Breaker Morant, Alexander Krygger, and Arthur Lynch. A beautifully produced book,Australia's Boer War was commissioned by the Australian War Memorial, which has provided over 200 illustrations and maps, including 15 artwork reproductions in full color.
Author : Louis Creswicke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book South Africa and the Transvaal War written by Louis Creswicke and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : P. L. Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845743956
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (439 download)
Download or read book Official Records of the Australian Military Contingents to the War in South Africa written by P. L. Murray and published by . This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original Australian Government 1911 official publication containing an astonishing amount of information on the activities of the contingents from all over Australia during the Boer War with many nominal rolls, plus details of equipment, pay, honours and awards. Australia s contribution to the war, as this volume makes clear in minute detail, was a major one, presaging its massive sacrifice a decade later in the Great War. As its author emphasises, this book is not a history of the war, but a statistical register and reference. As such it will prove invaluable to serious students. It does, however, also include descriptions of actions in which Australian units took part, and will prove absorbing to anyone who wishes to know the reality of Australia s part in the war behind legends such as that of Breaker Morant .
Author : John Featherstone Stirling
Publisher : Edinburgh, Blackwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Colonials in South Africa, 1899-1902, Their Record, Based on the Despatches written by John Featherstone Stirling and published by Edinburgh, Blackwood. This book was released on 1907 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Hamilton
Publisher : Pan Australia
ISBN 13 : 1741982227
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Gallipoli Sniper written by John Hamilton and published by Pan Australia. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anzac battlefield on Gallipoli was made for snipers. Scrub, cliffs, spurs and hills meant that both Anzac and Turkish positions often overlooked one another. The unwary or unlucky were prey to snipers on both sides, and the sudden crack of a gunshot and instant death were an ever-present menace. The most successful and most feared sniper of the Gallipoli campaign was Billy Sing, a Light Horseman from Queensland who was almost unique among the Australian troops in having a Chinese-born father. A combination of patience, stealth and an incredible eye made him utterly deadly, with the incredible – and horrifying – figure of over 200 credited "kills". John Hamilton, author of the bestselling Goodbye Cobber, God Bless You, has written an extraordinary account of a hidden side of the campaign – the snipers' war. Following Sing from his recruitment onwards, Hamilton takes us on a journey into the squalor, dust, blood and heroism of Gallipoli, seen from the unique viewpoint of the sniper. Gallipoli Sniper is a powerful and very different account of war and its effect on those who fight.
Author : Justin Chadwick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1925520315
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Sword and Baton Volume 1: 1900 to 1939 written by Justin Chadwick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-02-05 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sword and Baton is a collection of 86 biographies representing every Australian Army officer to reach the rank of major general from Federation to the outbreak of World War II. This is the first of two volumes, and its scope is broad, including chaplains-general, surgeons-general and British Army officers who served with the AIF or the permanent forces. Author Justin Chadwick portrayal of these officers careers provides a lens through which he examines trends such as the development of military skills which ensured that, by the commencement of hostilities in 1914, Australia boasted a pool of well-trained, albeit inexperienced officers. The effects of command under pressure of war and the enormous physical impact of combat are likewise portrayed in these comprehensive biographies. By the end of hostilities Australian officers had garnered immense experience and were among the best in the Allied forces. Ironically, this hard-won skill base was to be all but lost in the interwar period. Sword and Baton offers its readers more than a series of biographies. Rather, it describes a crucial period in Australian military history through the lives of the extraordinary men at its head.
Author : John Bufton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Tasmanians in the Transvaal War written by John Bufton and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barry Shaw
Publisher : Boolarong Press
ISBN 13 : 1925522644
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Brisbane at War written by Barry Shaw and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brisbane at War 1899-1918 is the Brisbane History Group’s twenty-sixth volume of papers. In total there are eleven chapters. All were mostly delivered at BHG functions. Two are from a seminar entitled ‘For Queen and Empire: Queensland and the South African War 1899-1902’ held on 26 May 2012 and seven were delivered at our seminars ‘Brisbane and World War I’ held on 6 September 2014 and 3 October 2015. An additional two papers were delivered elsewhere. Written by amateurs, professionals and academics, the chapters offer a diverse range of subjects. Themes include: - t· the importance of military medicine during the Second South African War - t· the Dutch attitudes and responses to the Boers and British and their decision to adopt a ‘neutral’ position - t· the story of the twelve Brisbane Grammar School old boys who fought in the Second South African War and World War I - t· the increasing activity at the Port of Brisbane as troops embarked for Europe and German raiders ventured into the Pacific - t· the underage enlistees, their motives, their experiences, their fate and the aftermath - t· the paediatricians and paediatric nurses who readily volunteered for duty in World War I • · the formation of the Women’s Peace Army and its ‘war against war’ … and conscription - t· the influences on Canon John Garland and his design for the Anzac Day service - t· the sorry saga of the Clark Memorial Windows at St John’s Cathedral - t· the response of Brisbane theatre to the changing attitudes of audiences in World War I - t· the opportunities to display patriotism in a range of different performances
Author : Peter Abbott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Colonial Armies in Africa, 1850-1918 written by Peter Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second half of the 19th century, European-led columns began to fan out across the African continent from their coastal footholds, smashing whatever forces could be brought against them, no matter how brave or determined the latter were. The process began at different dates in different parts of the continent, but much of the main activity was concentrated into the two decades between 1881 and 1902, subsequently but accurately nicknamed the 'Scramble for Africa'. By 1914 the Europeans had overrun the greater part of the continent, and, remarkably, had managed to do so without clashing with each other in the process: conflict between them only occurred after 1914 because what was essentially a European power-struggle was inevitably projected on to the African landscape. The armies responsible for this extraordinary period of expansion have seldom been surveyed as a whole, and never in the organisational detail attempted here. As well as including an outline of the principal campaigns of the period, military historian Peter Abbott examines in detail the structure, dress and armament of the colonial armies fielded by the Congo Free State, the Belgian Congo, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Spain, and includes in his text an unprecedented amount of order of battle material. Illustrations include 229 drawings of soldiers, 58 other illustrations, and two maps.
