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9780380720019
The Boer War
by Pakenham, Thomas
About this item
- Condition: Good
- Provider: JensonBooks Contact
- Provider Rating: 96%
- Ships From: Logan, UT
- Shipping: Standard
- Comments: Ex-library book. The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact (including the dust cover, if applicable). Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting.
Product details
- ISBN-13: 9780380720019
- ISBN: 0380720019
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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SUMMARY
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.Pakenham, Thomas is the author of 'The Boer War' with ISBN 9780380720019 and ISBN 0380720019.
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