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Author : Nicholas Bevis Kerton-Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (869 download)
Download or read book The Afrikaner Rebellion of 1914-1915 written by Nicholas Bevis Kerton-Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nigel Fox
Publisher : Porcupine Press Trading Under Dgr Writing & Resear
ISBN 13 : 9781920609771
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (97 download)
Download or read book A Bullet in the Back written by Nigel Fox and published by Porcupine Press Trading Under Dgr Writing & Resear. This book was released on 2014 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who killed Koos de la Rey and who captured Christiaan de Wet? Here's a thrilling novel based on historical fact about ordinary men catapulted into uniform and driving their own cars into battle against an Afrikaner hero described as the world's greatest guerrilla leader. Told from the points of view of D H Saker, founder of Saker's garage, and Harm Oost, founder of Het Volk newspaper and head of De Wet's bodyguard, the action follows battles and chases across the Union of South Africa. Madge Fabian, a touring British actress, gets caught up in the events of the times and the magnetism of a driven Saker. At every stage, the characters in this conflict - one that could have changed the outcome of World War I - meet with unexpected reverses that have a similar impact as a bullet in the back. The 1914 Rebellion - South Africa's first civil war - Could it happen again? Endorsement: "A Bullet in the Back is a fictional recreation of an episode in South African history now much forgotten but greatly in need of resurrection. In the course of his research Nigel Fox has unearthed a few surprises and, in the end, the book is a timely reminder of the catastrophe and tragedy that is civil war as something to be avoided at almost any cost." Tim Couzens Former winner of the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award and the CNA Literary Award, and the author of numerous books. About the Author: Nigel Fox is an independent advertising consultant and copywriter. As a long-term immigrant to South Africa, he has been inspired to research and document some of the fascinating stories that make up the complex fabric of South Africa's past. A Bullet in the Back is the first in a planned series of South African historical novels.
Author : Antonio Garcia
Publisher : Helion
ISBN 13 : 9781911628941
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (289 download)
Download or read book The First Campaign Victory of the Great War written by Antonio Garcia and published by Helion. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First Campaign Victory of the Great War provides an insightful account of South Africa's First World War German South West Africa campaign and combines the fields of military theory and military history in a novel campaign history. In analysing the campaign through the lens of "manoeuvre warfare theory" the work adds a new and unique dimension
Author : John Laband
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317868463
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Transvaal Rebellion written by John Laband and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes a unique look at the first Boer war by concentrating on the events and battles of the First Boer War. Due attention is also given to the 2nd Boer War - it's origins, key players and significance for the future of South Africa. The personal stories of heroism and sacrifice, sieges, rebellions and battles, make for an enthralling and dramatic tale - a classic of military history that will find a ready audience amongst military enthusiasts.
Author : Kent Fedorowich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Sleeping with the Lion? written by Kent Fedorowich and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Steyn
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1868429237
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (684 download)
Download or read book Louis Botha written by Richard Steyn and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2018-09-17 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Man Apart Richard Steyn once again brings to life a South African icon. Louis Botha was the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, a union he did much to create in the decade after the devastation of the Anglo-Boer War. During the war Botha was a brilliant young Boer general who through his battlefield strategy won significant victories over the British in the early stages of the war. When the weight of British arms overwhelmed the Boers, Botha along with Smuts did much to encourage peace between English and Afrikaner and led the country to Union in 1910 and dominion status. Botha was a big-hearted and generous man who showed magnanimity in his dealings with all, including former enemies. He led the South African troops to victory and the capture of German South West Africa – prior to this he had to put down a revolt of pro-German Afrikaners. At the Peace of Versailles, representing South Africa, he pleaded unsuccessfully for magnanimity towards the Germans. Botha was a globally respected figure – he and Smuts effectively operated as a double act in South Africa and on the international stage before Botha's untimely death in August 1919 at only 57. In A Man Apart this tragically short life is illuminated in full.
Author : Uriel Abulof
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316368750
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)
Download or read book The Mortality and Morality of Nations written by Uriel Abulof and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-24 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standing at the edge of life's abyss, we seek meaningful order. We commonly find this 'symbolic immortality' in religion, civilization, state and nation. What happens, however, when the nation itself appears mortal? The Mortality and Morality of Nations seeks to answer this question, theoretically and empirically. It argues that mortality makes morality, and right makes might; the nation's sense of a looming abyss informs its quest for a higher moral ground, which, if reached, can bolster its vitality. The book investigates nationalism's promise of moral immortality and its limitations via three case studies: French Canadians, Israeli Jews, and Afrikaners. All three have been insecure about the validity of their identity or the viability of their polity, or both. They have sought partial redress in existential self-legitimation: by the nation, of the nation and for the nation's very existence.
Author : G. D. Scholtz
Publisher : Protea Boekhuis
ISBN 13 : 9781919825120
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (251 download)
Download or read book The Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 written by G. D. Scholtz and published by Protea Boekhuis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise history of the Anglo-Boer War, a prize-winning work which was originally written in Afrikaans, is the ideal book for those who want an overview of the military fortunes of the two warring parties. Now richly provided with maps and illustrations, it is one of the most accurate short histories of this important three-year war. The author, G. D. Scholtz, was a Afrikaner historian of great stature, who saw the Anglo-Boer War as a struggle for liberation, a fight for Boer freedom and independence. His original text has been sensitively translated into English by historian Bridget Theron, who is a lecturer at the University of South Africa. It is an accessible work that may provide echoes to the American wars of independence.
Author : J. A. Kearney
Publisher : Unisa Press
ISBN 13 : 9781868882045
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Representing Dissension written by J. A. Kearney and published by Unisa Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study seeks to explore all South African fictional representations by white writers in English related to historically recorded acts of dissidence or agitation during the period c. 1906 to c. 1956.
Author : David Brock Katz
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1636240186
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (362 download)
Download or read book General Jan Smuts and his First World War in Africa, 1914–1917 written by David Brock Katz and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2022-05-19 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new assessment of Jan Smuts’s military leadership through examination of his World War I campaigning, demonstrating that he was a gifted general, conversant with the craft of maneuver warfare, and a command style steeped in the experiences of his time as a Boer general. World War I ushered in a renewed scramble for Africa. At its helm, Jan Smuts grabbed the opportunity to realize his ambition of a Greater South Africa. He set his sights upon the vast German colonies of South-West Africa and East Africa – the demise of which would end the Kaiser’s grandiose schemes for Mittelafrika. As part of his strategy to shift South Africa’s borders inexorably northward, Smuts even cast an eye toward Portuguese and Belgian African possessions. Smuts, his abilities as a general much denigrated by both his contemporary and then later modern historians, was no armchair soldier. This cabinet minister and statesman donned a uniform and led his men into battle. He learned his soldiery craft under General Koos De la Rey's tutelage, and another soldier-statesman, General Louis Botha during the South African War 1899–1902. He emerged from that war, immersed in the Boer maneuver doctrine he devastatingly waged in the guerrilla phase of that conflict. His daring and epic invasion of the Cape at the head of his commando remains legendary. The first phase of the German South West African campaign and the Afrikaner Rebellion in 1914 placed his abilities as a sound strategic thinker and a bold operational planner on display. Champing at the bit, he finally had the opportunity to command the Southern Forces in the second phase of the German South West African campaign. Placed in command of the Allied forces in East Africa in 1916, he led a mixed bag of South Africans and Imperial troops against the legendary Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and his Shutztruppe. Using his penchant for Boer maneuver warfare together with mounted infantry led and manned by Boer Republican veterans, he proceeded to free the vast German territory from Lettow-Vorbeck’s grip. Often leading from the front, his operational concepts were an enigma to the British under his command, remaining so to modern-day historians. Although unable to bring the elusive and wily Lettow-Vorbeck to a final decisive battle, Smuts conquered most of the territory by the end of his tenure in February 1917. General Jan Smuts and His First World War in Africa makes use of multiple archival sources and the official accounts of all the participants to provide a long-overdue reassessment of Smuts’s generalship and his role in furthering the strategic aims of South Africa and the British Empire in Africa during World War I.
Author : Ian van der Waag
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1612005837
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)
Download or read book A Military History of Modern South Africa written by Ian van der Waag and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a century of conflict and change—from the Second Boer War to the anti-apartheid movement and the many battles in between. Twentieth-century South Africa saw continuous, often rapid, and fundamental socioeconomic and political change. The century started with a brief but total war. Less than ten years later, Britain brought the conquered Boer republics and the Cape and Natal colonies together into the Union of South Africa. The Union Defence Force, later the SADF, was deployed during most of the major wars of the century, as well as a number of internal and regional struggles: the two world wars, Korea, uprising and rebellion on the part of Afrikaner and black nationalists, and industrial unrest. The century ended as it started, with another war. This was a flash point of the Cold War, which embraced more than just the subcontinent and lasted a long thirty years. The outcome included the final withdrawal of foreign troops from southern Africa, the withdrawal of South African forces from Angola and Namibia, and the transfer of political power away from a white elite to a broad-based democracy. This book is the first study of the South African armed forces as an institution and of the complex roles that these forces played in the wars, rebellions, uprisings, and protests of the period. It deals in the first instance with the evolution of South African defense policy, the development of the armed forces, and the people who served in and commanded them. It also places the narrative within the broader national past, to produce a fascinating study of a century in which South Africa was uniquely embroiled in three total wars.
Author : Charles Bloomberg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349106941
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Christian Nationalism and the Rise of the Afrikaner Broederbond in South Africa, 1918-48 written by Charles Bloomberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-06-18 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the phenomenon of Christian nationalism amongst the whites in South Africa and the simultaneous rise of the exclusive right wing society, the Afrikaner Broderbond.
Author : David Brock Katz
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1776192311
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (761 download)
Download or read book General Jan Smuts And his First World War in Africa (1914-19-17) written by David Brock Katz and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2022-08-24 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An engaging, well-written and meticulously researched military biography ...' – Tim Stapleton, Professor, Department of History, University of Calgary Jan Smuts grabbed the opportunity to realise his ambition of a Greater South Africa when the First World War ushered in a final scramble for Africa. He set his sights firmly northward upon the German colonies of South West Africa and East Africa. Smuts's abilities as a general have been much denigrated by his contemporaries and later historians, but he was no armchair soldier. He first learned his soldier's craft under General Koos de la Rey and General Louis Botha during the South African War (1899−1902). He emerged from that conflict immersed in Boer manoeuvre doctrine. After forming the Union Defence Force in 1912, Smuts played an integral part in the German South West African campaign in 1915. Placed in command of the Allied forces in East Africa in 1916, he led a mixed bag of South Africans and imperial troops against the legendary Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and his Schutztruppen. His penchant for manoeuvre warfare and mounted infantry freed most of the vast German territory from Lettow-Vorbeck's grip. General Jan Smuts and his First World War in Africa provides a long-overdue reassessment of Smuts's generalship and his role in furthering the strategic aims of South Africa and the British Empire during this era.
Author : Jeremy Krikler
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719068447
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (684 download)
Download or read book White Rising written by Jeremy Krikler and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-20 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Racial murder and rebellion lie at the heart of this book. It focuses on South Africa's 'Rand Revolt' of 1922, when Johannesburg and its surrounding towns were wracked by industrial strife, racial violence and insurrection. White workers rose against their employers and the State, black people were hunted through the streets, and strikers launched an onslaught upon police and the army. Krikler recreates this world of intense conflict and analyses the sources and complex nature of its extreme passions. The book suggests novel ways of looking at racial identity and violence, and breaks new ground in other areas - for example, in its assessment of the impact of the First World War on labour movements, and in its exploration of the significance of female violence during the upheaval." "Written with a determination to explore deeper meanings, the book has wide implications for our understanding of race and class in South Africa and elsewhere. It also offers a most vivid portrayal of a rebellion - with all its cruelty, heroism, drama and pathos."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Thomas Pakenham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781868420742
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Boer War Illustrated written by Thomas Pakenham and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edgar H. Brookes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000624412
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Apartheid written by Edgar H. Brookes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1968, this volume traces the history and growth of Apartheid in South Africa. The acts which enforced Apartheid – the Group Areas Act, Population and Registration Act are given in full. The book also includes documents which reflected reaction to these measures: Parliamentary debates, newspaper reports and policy statements by the leading political parties and religious denominations. The documents are headed by a full historical and analytical introduction.
Author : Philip J. Sampson
Publisher : London : E. Arnold
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Capture of De Wet written by Philip J. Sampson and published by London : E. Arnold. This book was released on 1915 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
