The Great Boer War (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
708
Utgivningsdatum
2021-03-21
Förlag
University of Utah Press,U.S.
Medarbetare
Wilson, R B (appendix)
Illustrationer
Black & white illustrations
Dimensioner
229 x 152 x 39 mm
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1022 g
Antal komponenter
1
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2:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9781647644796

The Great Boer War

120th Anniversary Edition

av Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Häftad,  Engelska, 2021-03-21
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A new edition of Arthur Conan-Doyle's classic account of the Second Anglo-Boer War, originally published in 1901. Now completely reset and updated with 194 new footnotes explaining terms, personalities, and events to the present-day reader, in addition to all 19 original footnotes by the author.

This edition also benefits from three appendices detailing total military casualties on both sides; a short review of the Boer prisoner of war camps in the Caribbean, the island of St. Helena, Ceylon and India; and finally, a comprehensive overview of the British concentration camps and their effect upon the Boer population.

Lavishly illustrated with 91 rare photographs, Conan-Doyle's work remains the standard by which all other accounts of the conflict are measured. Compiled by the author while serving as a medical doctor in Bloemfontein, the book starts by covering the origin of the Boer republics, and their dealings with the British and other emigrants on the Rand which laid the foundation of the casus belli.

From there it moves onto a fast-moving and factual account of the various battles and campaigns which saw initial British defeats turned into rapid advances into the Boer heartlands. The expected Boer surrender then never materialised, and the conflict devolved into a hard-fought guerrilla war which saw nearly twice as many British troops deployed into the Boer republics as the latter's entire population: men, women, and children combined.

A riveting story which has lost none of its drama in the past century, and whose reverberations can still be felt to the present day.

This special anniversary edition is lavishly illustrated with 91 rare photographs and two maps.
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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a Scottish writer and physician, most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes. He served as a medical officer in Bloemfontein during the Second Boer War.

Innehållsförteckning

about the author

preface to the first edition

preface to the final edition

chapter 1: the boer nations

chapter 2: the cause of the quarrel

chapter 3: the negotiations

chapter 4: the eve of war

chapter 5: talana hill

chapter 6: elandslaagte and rietfontein

chapter 7: the battle of ladysmith

chapter 8: lord methuen's advance

chapter 9: the battle of magersfontein

chapter 10: the battle of stormberg

chapter 11: the battle of colenso

chapter 12: the dark hour

chapter 13: the siege of ladysmith

chapter 14: the colesberg operations

chapter 15: spion kop

chapter 16: vaalkranz

chapter 17: buller's final advance

chapter 18: the siege and relief of kimberley

chapter 19: paardeberg

chapter 20: roberts' advance on bloemfontein

chapter 21: strategic effects of lord roberts's march

chapter 22: the halt at bloemfontein

chapter 23: the clearing of the south-east

chapter 24: the siege of mafeking

chapter 25: the march on pretoria

chapter 26: diamond hill-rundle's operations

chapter 27: the lines of communication

chapter 28: the halt at pretoria

chapter 29: the advance to komatipoort

chapter 30: the campaign of de wet

chapter 31: the guerrilla warfare in the transvaal: nooitgedacht

chapter 32: the second invasion of the cape colony (december 1900-april 1901)

chapter 33: the northern operations from january to april 1901

chapter 34: the winter campaign (april-september 1901)

chapter 35: the guerrilla operations in the cape colony

chapter 36: the spring campaign (september-december 1901)

chapter 37: the campaign of january-april 1902

chapter 38: de la rey's campaign of 1902

chapter 39: the end

appendix i: official table of casualties

appendix ii: boer prisoner of war camps in st. helena, ceylon, india and bermuda

appendix iii: boer and african deaths in the british concentration camps

index

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