A masterpiece of military history, overturning many received ideas.
Working over unexamined archives, and talking to survivors,
Pakenham casts new light on the origins and the course of the
Anglo-Boer war of 1899-1902, from which modern South Africa
derives. He reveals a link between Milner, the governor-general who
provoked the war, and Rhodes and Beit, the gold-mine owners who
wanted to profit from it; he explains the quarrels between the
British generals, who fought each other when they had time to spare
from fighting the Boers; he helps to rehabilitate Buller, whom he
shows at least to have done his best; and he emphasizes the
importance of the black inhabitants, who provided a fifth of the
war's 60,000-odd dead, and have been ignored in many previous works
on the subject. A fine display of understanding of the past.
(Kirkus UK)
The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, ‘no end of a lesson’. It proved to be the longest, the costliest, the bloodiest and the most humiliating campaign that Britain fought between 1815 and 1914.
Thomas Pakenham has written the first full-scale history of the war since 1910. His narrative is based on first-hand and largely unpublished sources ranging from the private papers of the leading protagonists to the recollections of survivors from both sides. Out of this historical gold-mine, the author has constructed a narrative as vivid and fast-moving as a novel, and a history that in scholarship, breadth and impact will endure for many years.
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