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The Boer War
by Pakenham, Thomas
- Used
- as new
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- As New
- ISBN 10
- 0380720019
- ISBN 13
- 9780380720019
- Seller
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post falls, Idaho, United States
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About This Item
U.S.A.: Avon Books. As New. 1992. First Thus. Glossy Soft Cover. 0380720019 718pp including list of important dates before and during the Boer War,bibliograpy, and index 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, initiating one of the longest, bloodiest, most costly and humiliating campaigns in their history This is the deficitive account of that conflict Plates Maps .
Synopsis
The war declared by the Boers of South Africa on October 11, 1899, gave the British, as Kipling said, 'No end of a lesson.' The public expected it to be over by Christmas. It proved to be the longest, the costliest, the bloodiest and most humiliating war that Great Britain fought between 1815 and 1914.
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- Bookseller
- First Choice Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86600
- Title
- The Boer War
- Author
- Pakenham, Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Glossy Soft Cover
- Book Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Thus
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0380720019
- ISBN 13
- 9780380720019
- Publisher
- Avon Books
- Place of Publication
- U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1992
- Keywords
- South, African, War, 1899-1902, Boer, Wa, r
- Bookseller catalogs
- Military History;
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