Kruger, kommandos & kak : debunking the myths of the Boer war / Chris Ash.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ash, Chris, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kruger, Paul, 1825-1904.

Kruger, Paul.

South African War, 1899-1902.

South African War, 1899-1902--Campaigns.

South African War, 1899-1902--Chronology.

South African War, 1899-1902--Propaganda.

Battles--South Africa--Maps.

Battles.

South Africa.

South African War (1899-1902).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (529 p.)

Place of Publication:

Pinetown, South Africa : 30° South Publishers, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

""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""; ""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 the Transvaal""; ""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""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 28, 2015).

ISBN:

9781928211228

1928211224

OCLC:

904209406