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THE GREAT BOER WAR

  • 定价: ¥65
  • ISBN:1840222174
  • 开 本:32开 平装
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  • 出版社:WORDSWORTH
  • 页数:495页
  • 作者:BYRON FARWELL
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  • 1999-01-01 第1版
  • 1999-01-01 第1次印刷
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    This is a very good general history of the Great Boer War.It benefits greatly from having a good introduction that tells the story of South Africa from the time of the earliest European colonists,through the history of the Voortrekkers,the First Anglo-Boer war and the Jameson raid,tracing the long tense relationship between the Boers and the British.
    The book is supported by good clear maps,and a selection of contemporary sketches and photographs.Well recommended for anyone who wants to learn more about this sometimes neglected war.

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    This is a very good general history of the Great Boer War.It benefits greatly from having a good introduction that tells the story of South Africa from the time of the earliest European colonists,through the history of the Voortrekkers,the First Anglo-Boer war and the Jameson raid,tracing the long tense relationship between the Boers and the British.
    Once into the war Farwell provides a good clear narrative,well illustrated with contemporary reports and letters.He copes well with the switch from conventional warfare to guerilla warfare half way through the war,and does not shrink from looking at some of the more unpalatable aspects of the war.He has a strong section on the infamous concentration camps that did so much harm to Britain's image at the time.Just as we have a good introduction,we also have a good conclusion,looking at some of the long terms consequences of the war.The only minor problem with this section is that Farwell was writing just before the fall of apartheid,and so some of his conclusions here are less relevant than they would have been at the time.
    The book is supported by good clear maps,and a selection of contemporary sketches and photographs.Well recommended for anyone who wants to learn more about this sometimes neglected war.

目录

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
MAP: SOUTH AFRICA
PREFACE
PROLOGUE
    1  The Birth of a People
    2  Voortrekkers and Their Republics
    3  The First Anglo-Boer War
    4  The Jameson Raid
    5  Moving Towards War
    6  Eve of War
ACT ONE
    7  The War Begins
    8  Talana: The First Battle
    9  Elandslaagte
    10  The Battle of Ladysmith
    11  Buller
    12  Methuen
    13  Magersfontein
    14  Stormberg lunction
    15  Before Colenso
    16  Colenso
    17  Black week
ACT TWO
    18  Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener
    19  Tabanyama: Prelude to Spion Kop
    20  Spion Kop
    21  After Spion Kop: Vaal Krantz
    22  The Great Flank March
    23  The Siege of Kimberley
    24  Paardeberg
    25  The Siege of Ladysmith
    26  BIoemfontien
    27  Decisions at Kroonstad
    28  The Boer Revival
    29  On the March to Pretoria
    30  Mafeking
    31  Pretoria
    32  After Pretoria: Roodewal and Brandwater Basin
    34  Advance to Komatipoort
    35  The End of the Second Act
ACT THREE
    36  Commandos in Cape Colony
    37  Smuts's Invasion of the Cape
    38  Fighting the Guerrillas
    39  Soldiering on the Veld
    40  Guerrilla Life
    41  The Concentration Camps and Emily Hobhouse
    42  The Concentration Camps: The Ladies Committee
    43  Prisoners of War
    45  Vereeniging: The Bitter End
    46  Epilogue: The Dust Settles
GLOSSARY
NOTES
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX