The Boer War
Thomas Pakenham
Publisher: Little, Brown (1991)
Paperback: 688 pages, illustrations
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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 Thomas Pakenham has written a full-scale history of the war, based on first-hand and largely unpublished sources ranging from the private papers of the leading protagonists to the recollections of survivors from both sides. It's an excellent read - very digestible. We can't recommend it enough!