A narrative and analysis of 123 battles of the Boer War, including battles that were fought without bullets as unbeknown to many - battles are not only fought on the blood-stained battlefield.--Publishers description....Lasīt vairāk
Woodrow Wilsons call to Congress in the Spring of 1917 to declare war on Germany ultimately changed the course of The First World War which together with the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 and Wilsons Anglophilia including time spent in the United...Lasīt vairāk
This work on the pioneering history of the Boers in the Cape Colony (South Africa) before the Great Trek (1835-1846) is primarily based on research in various archives and libraries....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Dec-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487546267)
The ways in which women have historically authorized themselves to write on war has blurred conventionally gendered lines, intertwining the personal with the political. Women on War in Spain’s Long Nineteenth Century explores, throug...Lasīt vairāk
Baden-Powell achieved great prominence, as well as notoriety, in both his military and scouting lives, driven largely by a constant yearning to win his mothers approval. Robert Baden-Powell was Britains first celebrity.A conflicted characte...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Jun-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Jonathan Cape Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781787332171)
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 20...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This work begins in August 1900 during the war in South Africa, when mounted Boer commandos ranging across the veldt superseded pitched battles of massed armies and heavy weaponry.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 organization, Baden-Powell is asked to create...Lasīt vairāk
After six battles, the war of 1838 between the Zulu people and the invading Boers and their Port Natal allies reached a stalemate. The Boers occupied half the Zulu kingdom and Dingane, the Zulu monarch, was discredited. The invasion in 1837 o...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Jul-2021, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN-13: 9780806169088)
This book spotlights Britains citizen army to show who these volunteers were, why they enlisted, how they were trainedand how they quickly became disillusioned when they found themselves committed not to the supposed glories of conventional...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers an account of this understudied conflict dating from the early stage of European colonialism in Africa, and unpacks the complex regional relationships between different communities in the first half of 19th century....Lasīt vairāk
This book records the courage, bravery and exploits of the forgotten Volunteers who fought and died in the Boer War when their country called them to arms....Lasīt vairāk
The Anglo-Zulu War was a defining episode in British imperial history, and it is still a subject of intense interest. The Zulu victory at Isandlwana, the heroic British defense of Rorkes Drift and the eventual British triumph are among the most clos...Lasīt vairāk
Almost one hundred and twenty five years ago, a Scottish adventurer attempted to expand the British Empire in South Africa with the backing of a mere 500 men. He was part of a conspiracy of entrepreneurs, gold magnates and politicians, each of whom h...Lasīt vairāk
This comprehensive military atlas covers every aspect of the Boer War in some 230 full-colour maps, diagrams and detailed ORBATs. Maps covering the conflict on a strategic, operational and tactical level guide the reader through each stage of the war...Lasīt vairāk
A biography of Edmund Allenby with a focus on his eight years in the Middle East 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...Lasīt vairāk
