THE BOER WAR. ILLUSTRATED EDITION. THOMAS PAKENHAM IN SOUTH AFRICA

1999, reprinted. Hard cover with dust cover. 304 pages. Very good condition. Tightly bound, neat and clean. The dust cover has minor edgewear. Over 1kg. More than two hundred illustrations, photographs, and maps combine with an abridged edition of the author's critically acclaimed The Boer War to chronicle the events, personalities, causes, and consequences of the war. The Boer War by Thomas Pakenham is mammoth in scope and scholarship, as vivid, fast-moving and breathtakingly compelling as the finest fiction. This is the definitive account of this extraordinary conflict -- a war precipitated by greed and marked by almost inconceivable blundering and brutalities... and whose shattering repercussions can be felt to this very day.