The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, no end of a lesson. The public expected it to be over by Christmas, but it proved to be the longest (two and three-quarter years), the costliest (over 200 million...Lasīt vairāk
Robert Baden-Powell was Britains first celebrity. A conflicted character - militarist and pacifist, macho man and drag artist, elitist and socialist - he was one of the 20th centurys most influential and, latterly, controversial Englishmen, findin...Lasīt vairāk
This work begins in August 1900 during the war in South Africa, when mounted Boer commandos ranging across the veldt superseded pitched battles of massed armies and heavy weaponry. Thanks to his flair for organisation, Baden-Powell is asked to create...Lasīt vairāk
This work begins in August 1900 during the war in South Africa, when mounted Boer commandos ranging across the veldt superseded pitched battles of massed armies and heavy weaponry. Thanks to his flair for organisation, Baden-Powell is asked to create...Lasīt vairāk
A spellbinding new book by the much-acclaimed writer, a journey to South Africa in search of the lost people called the /Xam - a haunting book about the brutality of colonial frontiers and the fate of those they dispossess.In spring 2020, Julia Black...Lasīt vairāk
Edmund Allenby, Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe, as he became later, was the principal British military figure in the Middle East from 1917 to 1919. He fulfilled a similar proconsular role in Egypt from the latter year until 1925. In these...Lasīt vairāk
Edmund Allenby, Viscount Allenby of Megiddo and Felixstowe, as he became later, was the principal British military figure in the Middle East from 1917 to 1919. He fulfilled a similar proconsular role in Egypt from the latter year until 1925. In these...Lasīt vairāk
This regimental history chronicles the Dandy Ninth Battalion Royal Scots from its first forays in the Boer War through the brutal fighting of WWI.After suffering the disastrous Black Week of the Second Boer War, the British Army formed a new Highland...Lasīt vairāk
This regimental history chronicles the Dandy Ninth Battalion Royal Scots from its first forays in the Boer War through the brutal fighting of WWI.After suffering the disastrous Black Week of the Second Boer War, the British Army formed a new Highland...Lasīt vairāk
Mafeking was the longest and the most controversial of the three sieges that began the South African War in 1899. Lasting 217 days, the Siege of Mafeking brought a highly charismatic leader to public attention and involved some controversial practice...Lasīt vairāk
Mafeking was the longest and the most controversial of the three sieges that began the South African War in 1899. Lasting 217 days, the Siege of Mafeking brought a highly charismatic leader to public attention and involved some controversial practice...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Mar-2018, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Little, Brown Book Group, ISBN-13: 9781472140906)
Winner of the Mbokodo Award for Women in the Arts for Literature, the ATKV (Afrikaans Language and Culture Association) Award for non-fiction and the kykNet/Rapport Award for non-fiction. Here was Emily . . . in these diaries and scrapbooks. An unpr...Lasīt vairāk
“Everything you need to know to get you started on the subject of the men of the British Army who found themselves in the trenches in WWI. Superb.” —Books Monthly British soldiers have been known as Tommies for centuries, but...Lasīt vairāk
“Everything you need to know to get you started on the subject of the men of the British Army who found themselves in the trenches in WWI. Superb.” —Books Monthly British soldiers have been known as Tommies for centuries, but...Lasīt vairāk
When the Boer Republics invaded Natal on the north-east coast of what is now South Africa in 1899, they could have been driven out with nominal casualties. Instead, Britain was to lose nearly 9,000 men killed in action, more than 13,000 to disease an...Lasīt vairāk
Waged across an inhospitable terrain which varied from open African savannah to broken mountain country and arid semi-desert, the Anglo-Boer wars of 1880 81 and 1899 1902 pitted the British Army and its allies against the Boers commandos.The nature...Lasīt vairāk
Waged across an inhospitable terrain which varied from open African savannah to broken mountain country and arid semi-desert, the Anglo-Boer wars of 1880 81 and 1899 1902 pitted the British Army and its allies against the Boers commandos.The nature...Lasīt vairāk
Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition Hero of the Empire by Candice Millard, read by Simon Vance.Completely engrossing Andrew RobertsFrom The New York Times bestselling author Candice Millard, this is the gripping true sto...Lasīt vairāk
The Boer War took place between 1899 and 1902, just 15 years before the start of the First World War. Some 180,00 Britons , mainly volunteers , traveled 6,000 miles to fight and die in boiling conditions on the veld and atop ‘kopjes’. O...Lasīt vairāk
