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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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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Kruger, Paul, 1825-1904.
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Kruger, Paul, 1825-1904 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJjMFKW9xp9bkdptfhbGHC |
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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 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcWtkkqd3cMmFw9GBdYT3 |
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South African War (1899-1902) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vBbyDB4K7R7VbH7Q6pX |
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1899-1902 |
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Chronologies
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Maps
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Kruger, kommandos and kak |
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Print version: Ash, Chris. Kruger, Kommandos & Kak : Debunking the Myths of The Boer War. Havertown : 30 Degrees South Publishers, ©2014 9781920143992 |
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9781928211228 (electronic bk.) |
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1928211224 (electronic bk.) |
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9781920143992 |
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