The Boer War - Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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The Boers of South Africa responded to Britain's annexation of the gold-and-diamond-rich Transvaal region by declaring war on October 11, 1899. The English believed the fighting would be over by Christmas -- never dreaming they were on the brink of one of the longest, bloodiest, most costly and humiliating military campaigns in their history. Mammoth in scope and scholarship, as vivid, fast-moving and breathtakingly compelling as the finest fiction. Thomas Pakenham's "The Boer War" is the definitive account of this extraordinary conflict -- a war precipitated by greed and marked by almost inconcievable blundering and brutalities . . . and whose shattering repercussions can be felt to this very day.
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[Auteur: Pakenham, Thomas] [Pagina's: 659] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson] [Jaar: 1979] [Titel: The Boer War]
