The Boer War – Weidenfeld and Nicolson Laatste Kans

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…