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Author : Fransjohan Pretorius
Publisher : Human & Rosseau
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Life on Commando During the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902 written by Fransjohan Pretorius and published by Human & Rosseau. This book was released on 1999 with total page 500 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 : 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 : Deneys Reitz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781539656807
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (568 download)
Download or read book Commando: a Boer Journal of the Boer War written by Deneys Reitz and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deneys Reitz was 17 when the Anglo-Boer War broke out in 1899. Reitz describes that he had no hatred of the British people, but "as a South African, one had to fight for one's country." Reitz had learned to ride, shoot and swim almost as soon as he could walk, and the skills and endurance he had acquired during those years were to be made full use of during the war. He fought with different Boer Commandos, where each Commando consisted mainly of farmers on horseback, using their own horses and guns.Commando describes the tumult through the eyes of a warrior in the saddle. Reitz was fortunate to be present at nearly every one of the major battles of the war. Commando is a straightforward narrative that describes an extraordinary adventure and brings us a vivid, unforgettable picture of mobile guerrilla warfare, especially later in the war as General Smuts and men like Reitz fought on, braving heat, cold, rain, lack of food, clothing and boots, tiring horses.
Author : D. Omissi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230598293
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Impact of the South African War written by D. Omissi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-20 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting new book marks a major shift in the study of the South African War. It turns attention from the war's much debated causes onto its more neglected consequences. An international team of scholars explores the myriad legacies of the war - for South Africa, for Britain, for the Empire and beyond. The extensive introduction sets the contributions in context, and the elegant afterword offers thought-provoking reflections on their cumulative significance.
Author : Fransjohan Pretorius
Publisher : Human & Rosseau
ISBN 13 : 9780798138062
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Life on Commando During the South African War, 1899-1902 written by Fransjohan Pretorius and published by Human & Rosseau. This book was released on 1998-05-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military historians, scholars, and readers interested in military affairs and the South African Boer War will find this insightful social history of particular interest as 1999 approaches, marking the centenary of the Boer War.
Author : Candice Millard
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385535740
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Hero of the Empire written by Candice Millard and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic, this thrilling biographical account of the life and legacy of Wintson Churchill is a "nail-biter and top-notch character study rolled into one" (The New York Times). At the age of twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England. He arrived in South Africa in 1899, valet and crates of vintage wine in tow, to cover the brutal colonial war the British were fighting with Boer rebels and jumpstart his political career. But just two weeks later, Churchill was taken prisoner. Remarkably, he pulled off a daring escape—traversing hundreds of miles of enemy territory, alone, with nothing but a crumpled wad of cash, four slabs of chocolate, and his wits to guide him. Bestselling author Candice Millard spins an epic story of bravery, savagery, and chance encounters with a cast of historical characters—including Rudyard Kipling, Lord Kitchener, and Mohandas Gandhi—with whom Churchill would later share the world stage. But Hero of the Empire is more than an extraordinary adventure story, for the lessons Churchill took from the Boer War would profoundly affect twentieth century history.
Author : Thomas Pakenham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781841880143
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Boer War written by Thomas Pakenham and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson in 1979, an illustrated narrative of the Boer War, written by the author of SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA.
Author : John Boje
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252097653
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book An Imperfect Occupation written by John Boje and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South African War (1899–1902), also called the Boer War and Anglo-Boer War, began as a conventional conflict. It escalated into a savage irregular war fought between the two Boer republics and a British imperial force that adopted a scorched-earth policy and used concentration camps to break the will of Afrikaner patriots and Boer guerrillas. In An Imperfect Occupation , John Boje delves into the agonizing choices faced by Winburg district residents during the British occupation. Afrikaner men fought or evaded combat or collaborated; Afrikaner women fled over the veld or submitted to life in the camps; and black Africans weighed the life or death consequences of taking sides. Boje's sensitive analysis showcases the motives, actions, and reactions of Boers and Africans alike as initial British accommodation gave way to ruthlessness. Challenging notions of Boer unity and homogeneity, Boje illustrates the precarious tightrope of resistance, neutrality, and collaboration walked by people on all sides. He also reveals how the repercussions of the war's transformative effect on Afrikaner identity plays out in today's South Africa. Readable and compassionate, An Imperfect Occupation provides a dramatic account of the often overlooked aspects of one of the first "modern" wars.
Author : Bill Nasson
Publisher : NB Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780624048091
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (48 download)
Download or read book The War for South Africa written by Bill Nasson and published by NB Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how the Anglo-Boer War shaped South Africa s future and how it has come to be remembered in a post-apartheid South Africa.
Author : Bill Nasson
Publisher : Bloomsbury USA
ISBN 13 : 9780340614273
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book The South African War 1899-1902 written by Bill Nasson and published by Bloomsbury USA. This book was released on 1999-07-31 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The South African War rounded off the British conquest of Southern Africa. Only now, a hundred years later, are some of the more baleful legacies of the war being addressed. This new history is an up-to-date account of the military struggle in South Africa including the whole web of miscalculations and shattered illusions that surrounded it which spread far beyond the battlefields.
Author : Colin D. Heaton
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1612001769
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Four-War Boer written by Colin D. Heaton and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2014-01-19 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “fascinating” biography of a South African-born warrior provides a window into a full century of military conflicts(Adam Makos, New York Times–bestselling author of A Higher Call). Four-War Boer traces Pieter Krueler’s highly colorful life from the Second Boer War, where he first served as a fourteen-year-old scout, to his service in World War I with the German army in East Africa to the Spanish Civil War to World War II, this time with the Allies, and on into the latter part of the twentieth century, when he served as a mercenary during the 1960s Congo Crisis. Later, in his eighties, he became a civilian trainer for the original Selous Scouts of Rhodesia and, later still, a trainer for South African commandos. The book follows Krueler through a remarkable career that included, among other adventures, leading native African soldiers on extremely dangerous missions in the Belgian Congo; volunteering as a mercenary during the Spanish Civil War, during which he worked with the Pyrenees Basque movement; serving as a coast watcher to keep South Africa safe from German incursion; and fighting alongside Michael Hoare during the 1960s Congo Crisis. A chapter is devoted to the formation of Rhodesia’s highly elite Selous Scouts, along with highlights of several previously classified missions. This material includes a wealth of new information, and breaks the secrecy surrounding Rhodesian and South African special operations, as unveiled through the experience of a man who was a founding father of counterinsurgency in Africa. Based on six years of historical research through hard-to-find secondary and published primary sources, as well as extensive interviews with Krueler himself, and interviews with German officers and others who knew and worked with him, this biography is filled with extensive first-person testimony that gives it the immediacy of a memoir.
Author : Donal P. McCracken
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book MacBride's Brigade written by Donal P. McCracken and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of 500 Irish-American men and Irish men who fought the British in the Anglo-Boer war.
Author : Chris Ash
Publisher : 30 Degrees South Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1928211224
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (282 download)
Download or read book Kruger, Kommandos & Kak written by Chris Ash and published by 30 Degrees South Publishers. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second Boer War is the most important war in South African history; indeed, without it, South Africa would likely have not existed. But itÕs also one of the least understood conflicts of the era. Over a century of Leftist bleating and insidious, self-serving revisionism, first by Afrikaner nationalists and then by the apartheid regime, has left the layman with a completely skewed view of the war. Incredibly, most people will tell you that the British attacked the Boers to steal their gold, and that when the clueless, red-jacketed Tommies advanced under orders of bumptious, incompetent British generals they were mowed down in their thousands. Others think of the conflict in terms of ÔBritain against South AfricaÕ and many believe that the Boers actually won the war; the marginally more enlightened explain away the Boer defeat by claiming it took millions of British troops to beat them, or that it was only the ÔgenocideÕ of the concentration camps which forced the plucky Boers to throw in the towel. Ê ItÕs all bosh. This book will take everything you thought you ÔknewÕ about the war and turn it on its head. From KrugerÕs expansionist dream of an Afrikaans empire Ôfrom the Zambesi to the CapeÕ, to the murder and devastation wrought on Natal by his invading commandos, to the savage massacres of thousands of blacks committed by the ÔgallantÕ bitter-einders, the reader will have his eyes opened to the brutal realities of the conflict, and be forced to reassess previously held notions of the rights and wrongs of the war. Hard-hitting and uncomfortable reading for those who do not want their bubble of ignorance burst, Kruger, Kommandos & Kak exposes that side of the Boer War which the apartheid propaganda machine didnÕt want you to know about.
Author : Donal Lowry
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719058257
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (582 download)
Download or read book The South African War Reappraised written by Donal Lowry and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text brings together contributions from scholars in South African and imperial history to examine the international dimensions of the war, including a historiographical review of a century of writing on the origins of the war.
Author : Ian Knight
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781855326132
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The Boer Wars (2) written by Ian Knight and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 1997-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 11 October 1899 the Second Boer War between the British and the Boers began. The war saw the most powerful professional army in the world pitted against the unconventional tactics of the undisciplined Boers. Although the Boers were finally forced to surrender in May 1902 the war had taken its toll on their opponents who lost some 8,000 troops killed in action with a further 13,000 dying from disease. This book covers the organisation, uniforms and very different tactics involved in the conflict, from guerrilla warfare to a final war of attrition that the Boers could not hope to win.
Author : Trilby Kent
Publisher : Tundra Books
ISBN 13 : 1770492526
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Stones for My Father written by Trilby Kent and published by Tundra Books. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corlie Roux’s farm life in South Africa is not easy: the Transvaal is beautiful, but it is also a harsh place where the heat can be so intense that the very raindrops sizzle. When her beloved father dies, she is left with a mother who is as devoted to her sons as she is cruel to her daughter. Despite this, Corlie finds solace in her friend, Sipho, and in Africa itself and in the stories she conjures for her brothers. But Corlie’s world is about to vanish: the British are invading and driving Boer families like hers from their farms. Some escape into the bush to fight the enemy. The unlucky ones are rounded up and sent to internment camps. Will Corlie’s resilience and devotion to her country sustain her through the suffering and squalor she finds in the camp at Kroonstad? That may depend on a soldier from faraway Canada and on inner resources Corlie never dreamed she had….
