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Volunteers on the Veld - Britain's Citizen-Soldiers and the South African War, 1899-1902 (Hardcover)
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Volunteers on the Veld - Britain's Citizen-Soldiers and the South African War, 1899-1902 (Hardcover)
Series: Campaigns and Commanders Series
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When the Second Boer War erupted in South Africa in 1899, Great
Britain was confident that victory would come quickly and
decisively. Instead, the war lasted for three grueling years. To
achieve final victory, the British government was forced to depend
not only on its Regular Army but also on a large volunteer force.
This book spotlights Britain's ""citizen army"" to show who these
volunteers were, why they enlisted, how they were trained - and how
they quickly became disillusioned when they found themselves
committed not to the supposed glories of conventional battle but
instead to a prolonged guerrilla war.In Volunteers on the Veld,
Stephen M. Miller focuses on the connection between Britain's
auxiliary forces - volunteers, militia, and yeomanry - and its
imperial mission during the late Victorian era, looking especially
at why the British war effort came to depend on their performance.
Miller examines motivations for enlistment, the use of
citizen-soldiers in guerrilla warfare, and the effects of combat on
the soldiers themselves, weaving together the sense of national
emergency, the influence of popular culture, and images of manhood
that propelled so many Britons into the ranks of volunteers. By
revisiting one of the most significant guerrilla wars of the modern
age - and one of the earliest examples of the use of modern media
to promote mobilization for a foreign war - Volunteers on the Veld
lends fresh insight into British imperial warfare while suggesting
unmistakable parallels between these citizen-soldiers and today's
American volunteers in Iraq.
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