Encyclopedia of the Boer War 1899‐1902 Available to Purchase

When the reviewer first became aware of the Boer War it was only 40 years distant; now it is a century since Goodbye Dolly Grey topped the charts and Mafeking was relieved. It was not just another colonial war waged against ill‐armed native tribesmen in the cause of Christianity and civilisation, but a fitting precursor to a sick and diseased century. If the tank, the use of poison gas, the invention and use of chemical and nuclear weapons were still in the future, the Boer War marked all too visibly the progress, history and evolution of modern warfare. And it...