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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 His narrative is based on first-hand and largely unpublished sources ranging from the private papers of the leading protagonists to the recollections of survivors from both sides.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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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Boer War
• Author: Thomas Pakenham
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 688
• EAN: 9780349104669
• ISBN: 0349104662
• ID: 04065102
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Weight: 506 g
• Dimensions: 224 × 128 × 47 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. October 1991

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