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The Boer War by Tabitha Jackson.
The Boer War (1899-1902) shaped the destiny of South Africa and, as Rudyard Kipling remarked, taught the mighty British Empire no end of a lesson. It was said to be the last of the Gentleman's wars, a white man's war it would be over by Christmas. It was none of these things. The Boer War was brutal, racially explosive, and it took the greatest empire in the world nearly three years to beat a Boer army smaller than the population of Brighton. The Boer War catapulted the world into the twentieth century, prefiguring the worst excesses of modern conflicts: the indiscriminate bombing of civilians, scorched earth, rape, concentration camps. It was also a civil war, dividing families, communities, and races. Startling new material reveals the involvement of blacks on both sides - fighting at the front and dying in a network of black-only concentration camps. Black support and participation were rewarded with broken promises and betrayal; the peace settlement endorsed white supremacy in South Africa. The combination of new research, powerful oral testimony, and a wealth of recently discovered letters and diaries makes The Boer War, and the Channel 4 series made by Twenty Twenty Television that it accompanies, an important reassessment. Illustrated throughout with many previously unseen photographs, The Boer War is a unique history of a much misunderstood conflict that has cast long shadows across the century. |
| | Item Code : BK0048 | The Boer War by Tabitha Jackson. - Editions Available | |
| | DESCRIPTION | SIZE | SIGNATURES | OFFERS | PRICE | PURCHASING | PACKS | | Hardback book. | 186 pages. | none | | £15.99 | | |
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