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The Boer War
Four War Boer - The Century and Life of Pieter Arnoldus Krueler
The amazing life of Pieter Krueler (1885-1986) provides a window into a full century of conflict such as one man rarely experiences. Four-War Boer traces Krueler’s highly colourful life from the Second Boer War, where he first served as a 14-year-old scout, through his service in World War I with the German army in East Africa, to the Spanish Civil War to World War II, this time with the Allies, and on into the latter part of the 20th century...
Anecdotes of the Anglo-Boer War - Tales from 'The Last of the Gentlemen's Wars' Revised & Updated Second Edition
Wars always generate stories and everybody loves a story. Rob Milne has compiled this selection of Anglo-Boer War stories from all over South Africa and recounts them in a book that saddens, mystifies, but most of all entertains. ...
The Anglo-Boer War Diaries of Jan Geldenhuys. 1899 - 1902
Jan Geldenhuys was called up in October 1899 to serve in the Kroonstad Commando under Commandant Martinus Schoeman on the Western Front and deployed for the Siege of Kimberley. He fought at the Battles of Belmont, Graspan, Twee-Riviere (Modder River), Magersfontein and several other minor skirmishes.
Hill of Squandered Valour: The Battle for Spion Kop 1900
A complete and detailed account of a devastating South African conflict. Ron Lock, author of many Zulu warfare histories, brings to life this bitter and previously overlooked campaign in vivid and complete detail, with supporting sources including then-journalist Winston Churchill's battle report, as well as many previously unpublished illustrations and six newly commissioned maps...
The Boer War: The War for South Africa
The Boer War was a costly colonial conflict between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics in South Africa. Pitting the superior armed might of British imperialism against two of the world's tiniest rural states, it nevertheless took almost three years for the Boer forces to be defeated...
Plumer's Men: The Rhodesia Regiment and the Northwest Frontier during the Second South African War, 1899-1900
During the early phases of the Anglo-South African War, 1899-1900, members of the Rhodesia Regiment under the Command of Lt-Colonel H.C.O. Plumer, saw action in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)...
Silence of the Guns - The History of the Long Toms of the Anglo-Boer War
After the unsuccessful Jameson Raid of 1896 the Kruger government realised how vulnerable the South African Republic was. Four forts were therefore built around Pretoria. For each fort a 155 mm gun was bought from the firm Schneider et Cie in Le Creusot, France. ... Read More
The Boer War 1899-1902
Victorious in its previous campaigns in Africa against native armies, Britain now confronted an altogether different foe. The Boers proved to be formidable opponents, masterfully compensating for inferior numbers with grim determination, resourcefulness and strong religious faith. Their mobility, expert use of cover, and...
The Boer War - Winston Churchill
The first shots of the Boer War were fired at Kraaipan on 12 October 1899. Winston Churchill, though he had left his regiment, the 4th Hussars, in the previous March, was eager as ever to be within the sound of guns and wasted no time in getting himself accredited to the Morning post as war correspondent. He sailed from Southampton aboard the Dunottar Castle on 14 October and reached...
Commando
Born in 1882, Deneys Reitz began soldiering at the age of 17 he was the son of F W Reitz, the State Secretary of the Transvaal. The young man knew and writes about the State President, Paul Kruger, and his wife. When war broke out in South Africa between the Boers and the British he rode away on his Basuto pony to join one of those 'Commandos' which were to perform such prodigies of resistance for the next three years. After the Boer surrender in 1902 Reitz went into voluntary exile...
The HAC in South Africa: A Record of the Services Rendered in the Southern African War by Members of the Honourable Artillery Company
An ‘accurate and complete’ record of the part taken by the Honourable Artillery Company in the South African War. A facsimile reproduction which details the formation of the HAC Battery that served in the South African War, training in barracks, operations in the field and the work of the HAC’s mounted infantry detachment...
On 2 October 1899 a horseman arrived at Christiaan de Wet’s Orange Free State farm and served summonses for commando service on himself and his three eldest sons. They were to prepare for activeservice, providing themselves with horses, saddles and bridles and rifles each with 30 rounds of ammunition (alternatively 30 lead balls, 30 percussion caps and half a pound of black powder). Nine days later on...State.
Winston Churchill: The Making of a Hero in the South African War
One of the greatest talents that Winston Churchill was blessed with with was his extraordinary command of the English language. He would go on to write a prodigious 65 books in his lifetime.
He was rewarded for this in 1953 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Yet in Britain his abilities as a writer were already widely recognised by the end of the 19th century.
The Great Boer War
The Great Boer War (1899 - 1902) - more properly the Great Anglo-Boer War - was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British Empire at its peak of power and self-confidence. It was fought in the barren vastness of the South African veldt, and it produced in almost equal measure extraordinary feats...
How We Kept the Flag Flying – The Story of the Siege of Ladysmith
This is the exciting account of the Siege of Ladysmith. It is eminently readable, intensely human and is written with the journalist’s eye for history in the making.
The author was in Ladysmith for the entire siege and witnessed firsthand the pathos and humour of the siege situation, cataloguing the effect of continual bombardment and ever decreasing rations, coupled with the onset of the debilitating enteric fever...
The Boer War
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 a full-scale history of the war, based on first-hand and largely unpublished sources ranging from the private papers of the leading protagonists... - very digestible. We can't recommend it enough!