# The Boer War

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- Book: [The Boer War](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-pakenham/the-boer-war) ([The Boer War.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-pakenham/the-boer-war.md))
- Authors: [Thomas Pakenham](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-pakenham)
- Publisher: abacus
- ISBN: 978-03-4910-466-9
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2003-03-06
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Featuring previously unpublished sources, this 'enjoyable as well as massively impressive' bestseller is a definitive account of the Boer War (Financial Times) The war declared by the Boers on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 Thomas Pakenham's narrative is based on first-hand and largely unpublished sources ranging from the private papers of the leading protagonists to the recollections of survivors from both sides. Mammoth in scope and scholarship, as vivid, fast-moving and breathtakingly compelling as the finest fiction. The Boer War is the definitive account of this extraordinary conflict - a war precipitated by greed and marked by almost inconceivable blundering and brutalities... and whose shattering repercussions can be felt to this very day. 'Not only a magnum opus, it is a conclusive work ... Enjoyable as well as massively impressive' - Financial Times 'This is a wonderful book: brilliantly written ... the reader turns each page with increasing fascination and admiration' -A. J. P. Taylor