PAKENHAM (T.). THE BOER WAR. IN SOUTH AFRICA

Pakenham (T.). THE BOER WAR. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2004. "The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, 'no end of a lesson'. The public expected it to be over by Christmas. It proved to be the longest (two and three- quarter years), the costliest (over £200 million), the bloodiest (at least 22,000 British, 25,000 Boer and 12,000 African lives) and the most humiliating war that Britain fought between 1815 and 1914. Thomas Pakenham has written the first full- scale documentary history of the war to be attempted since 1910. His narrative is based on first-hand and largely unpublished sources." 659pp., b+w plates. As new in as new dw. Hardcover. (##2726)