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1 online resource |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Maps; Timeline; Author's note; Introduction; Chapter 1: Making of the Transvaal; Chapter 2: All about gold; Chapter 3: Warmongering and the Bond; Chapter 4: The road to war; Chapter 5: Arrogance, over-confidence and the Kruger raid; Chapter 6: Opening shots; Chapter 7: Black Week and Black Month; Chapter 8: Guerrilla war or terrorism?; Chapter 9: Methods of barbarism; Chapter 10: The concentration camps; Chapter 11: We rely on your generals; Chapter 12: The superhuman Boer; Chapter 13: Hidebound by tradition |
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Chapter 14: Who was fighting the white man's war?Chapter 15: A hopeless cause?; Afterword; Notes; Appendix I Constant changes to the voting rules in theTransvaal; Appendix II Imperial Divisional Commanders, October 1899-June 1901; Appendix III Imperial Brigade Commanders, October 1899-June 1901; Appendix IV Locally raised Imperial South African units; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
The second Boer War is the most important war in South African history; indeed, without it, South Africa would likely have not existed. But it's also one of the least understood conflicts of the era. Over a century of Leftist bleating and insidious, self-serving revisionism, first by Afrikaner nationalists and then by the apartheid regime, has left the layman with a completely skewed view of the war. Incredibly, most people will tell you that the British attacked the Boers to steal their gold, and that when the clueless, red-jacketed Tommies advanced under orders of bumptious, incompetent Brit |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO; viewed on March 20, 2015) |
| Subject |
Kruger, Paul, 1825-1904.
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| SUBJECT |
Kruger, Paul, 1825-1904 fast |
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South African War, 1899-1902.
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South African War, 1899-1902 -- Campaigns.
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South African War, 1899-1902 -- Chronology
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South African War, 1899-1902 -- Propaganda
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Battles -- South Africa -- Maps
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HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- General.
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HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- Republic of South Africa.
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Battles
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Military campaigns
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Propaganda
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South Africa
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Chronologies
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Maps
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781928211228 |
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1928211224 |
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