The Boer War de Pakenham, Thomas

Hardback. Good.

Hardback. Very Good.

HARDBACK, "UNCOMMON," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 2nd.* Date of Publication: 1998 (1997)* Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.* Binding and cover condition: Brown cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, minimal shelf wear to upper & lower edges and to head and tail of spine. Light crease to spine. VG+* Jacket condition: Monochrome photo-illustrated dust wrapper, red and green titles to spine and face. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of £30.00. Absolutely minimal, shelf wear to top edges and to head of spine. Now in clear protective wrapper. VG+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Coloured end papers (green). Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, very slight marks to top & bottom edges, top edge dusty, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: Four x 8pp blocks of b/w photos, several b/w cartoons and maps within text.* Pages: 578 pp. text. lxxxviii pp., dates, sources, bibliography, notes, index & blank pages at rear.*… Leer más

ISBN: 9780297819141 
Orion Publishing Co | 27 January 1997 
Hardback | 688 pages 
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), the bloodiest (at least 22,000 British, 25,000 Boer and 12,000 African lives) and the most humiliating war that Britain fought between 1815 and 1914. Thomas Pakenham's was the first full-scale documentary history of the war to be attempted since 1910. His narrative is based on first-hand and largely unpublished sources, from British and South African archives to the private papers, letters and diaries of the protagonists and soldiers of both sides, and the tape-recorded memories of over fifty survivors. Out of this historical goldmine, Thomas Pakenham has constructed a narrative as vivid and fast-moving as a novel, and throws new light on the blunders and personal feuds… Leer más

Weidenfeld and Nicolson,. Hardback. First edition thus. 659pp. Indexed. Five small selections of black and white plates. 4 contemporary cartoons. 9 maps. Very clean and neat. Very good copy in like dust jacket . Hardback. 1997.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1997. New edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xxii, 659 p., [32] p. of plates : ill., maps, plans, ports ; 25 cm. Notes: First published: 1979. Includes bibliographical references (p. [587]-594) and index. Subjects; South African War, 1899-1902. Guerre des Boers, 1899-1902. Burenkrieg. Southern Africa 20th century. Transvaal - General History (1814-1909).