The Boer War

ISBN: 9781350143548 出版年：2013 页码：384 Denis Judd Bloomsbury Publishing

Part I The background to the war: British rule confrontation and compromise,1815-1886 the descent to war 1886-1899. Part II The combatants: the British Army rallying the empire the Boers. Part III The campaigns, 1899-1902: the opening battles the disasters of "Black Week" humiliation - Spion Kop and Vaal Krantz "thank god we kept the flag flying" the besieged towns of Ladysmith, Kimberley and Mafeking the turn of the tide Lord Roberts to the rescue marching to Pretoria (and Johannesburg) "methods of barbarism?" - Kitchener in charge. Part IV The ambivalences of war: big business, capitalism and the war last of the gentlemen's wars? the pro-Boers foreigners and the war the press and the war the literature of the war. Part V The peace: the talks begin taking stock peace at last. Aftermath: the winners and losers.