Trade Paperback
1992 · New York
by Pakenham, Thomas
New York: Perennial, 1992. 6th Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 6x1x9. Sixth printing. Edge wear, pages toned. 1992 Trade Paperback. xxix, 718 pp. "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. (Inventory #: 2338673)