London, Aldershot: Gale and Polden Limited, 1910. — 376 p. With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans. This is an interesting example of a genre reasonably popular during the nineteenth century - the anonymous military memoir. The author of this book served in South Africa for twenty six months during the Boer War, and so was an eye witness to many of the...
Seven Stories Press, 2018. — 646 p. The Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) is one of the most intriguing conflicts of modern history. It has been labeled many things: the first media war, a precursor of the First and Second World Wars, the originator of apartheid. The difference in status and resources between the superpower Great Britain and two insignificant Boer republics in...
London: Pan Books, 1999 - 300 pgs. Field Marshal Lord Carver's modern and up to date history of the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) is distinctive because it incorporates extensive extracts from first-person accounts gathered over the decades by the National Army Museum. The reader sees how high-level decisions result in messy events at the squadron, battery, and company...
London, Altmark Publishing Ltd., 1976. — 48 p. Excellent and detailed account of this complex battle, with excellent illustrations of the combatants. Best volume on decisive Battle off Spion Kop (January 1900).
London, Bombay: George Bell & Sons, 1900. — 552 p. With Maps. It may come as a surprise that the creator of Sherlock Holmes wrote a history of the Boer War. The then 40-year-old novelist wanted to see the war first hand as a soldier, but the Victorian army balked at having popular author wielding a pen in its ranks. The army did accept him as a doctor and Doyle was knighted in...
New York, London: Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1902. — 603 p. After resigning membership of the British House of Commons in October, 1899, as a personal and political protest against a war which I believed to be the greatest infamy of the nineteenth century, I proceeded, a short time afterwards, to the Transvaal to see and learn more about the little nation against whose liberty...
MPG Books Limited. 2000. — 414 p. — ISBN: 978-1-851093-42-7. The only comprehensive encyclopedia on the Boer War available, this volume offers A-Z entries on the war's origins, military strategy and tactics, main battles and sieges, major political and military figures, weaponry, and other related topics.
Osprey Publishing Ltd., 2003. — 95 p. — (Essential Histories). 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...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. — 249 p. How England’s volunteers got more than they bargained for in the Boer WarWhen 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...
Manchester, Reddish, and London: Taylor, Garnett, Evans, & Co., Ltd., 1902. — 344 p. Extracts from Books, Newspapers, Pamphlets. Geography History Before and After the Jameson Raid Negotiations, "The New Diplomacy," and its Results Arbitration and the Liberal Party Cheap Labour and Light lytaxed Goldfields as Millionaires' Aims Waste of Life, Loss of Reputation, Prestige, and...
New York: Random House, 1974. — 718 p. The South Africa War, or the Boer War, was one of Britain's less than stellar historical eras. Between the times when the war broke out on October 11, 1899 to the armistice on May 31, 1902, the British Empire found itself in a long and drawn-out battle. Prior to World War I, the Boer War was one of the worst defeats that the British...
New York: Random House, 1974. — 718 p. The South Africa War, or the Boer War, was one of Britain's less than stellar historical eras. Between the times when the war broke out on October 11, 1899 to the armistice on May 31, 1902, the British Empire found itself in a long and drawn-out battle. Prior to World War I, the Boer War was one of the worst defeats that the British...
Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000. — 255 p. One hundred years after the Boer War (1899-1902), the British continue to debate what went wrong, while the war has significant nationalist overtones in today's South Africa. This book examines changes in interpretations of the war and provides a bibliography of major sources on the Boer War, now sometimes called the South African War....
Maps from drawings by P. Van Breda. — London: Hood, Douglas, & Howard, 1902. — 592 p. General Viljoen was a prisoner-of-war at Broadbottom Camp, St. Helena, where, after two years' service in South Africa, I was stationed with my regiment. It was at the General's further request that I conveyed this work to Europe for publication. The qualities which particularly endeared this...
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