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The Boer War: London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria and Ian Hamilton's March
Contributor(s): Churchill, Sir Winston S. (Author)
ISBN: 1472520823     ISBN-13: 9781472520821
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
OUR PRICE:   $34.60  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe - General
- History | Africa - South - Republic Of South Africa
- History | Military - General
Dewey: 968.048
LCCN: 2013025909
Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.30 lbs) 392 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Southern Africa
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
 
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Publisher Description:

On October 11th,1899 long-simmering tensions between Britain and the Boer Republics - the Orange Free State and the Transvaal Republic - finally erupted into the conflict that would become known as the Second Boer War. Two days after the first shots were fired, a young writer by the name of Winston Churchill set out for South Africa to cover the conflict for the Morning Post.

The Boer War brings together the two collections of despatches that Churchill published on the conflict. London to Ladysmith recounts the future Prime Minister's arrival in South Africa and his subsequent capture by and dramatic escape from the Boers, the adventure that first brought the name of Winston Churchill to public attention. Ian Hamilton's March collects Churchill's later despatches as he marched alongside a column of the main British army from Bloemfontein to Pretoria. Published together, these books are a vivid eye-witness account of a landmark period in British Imperial History and an insightful chronicle of a formative experience by Britain's greatest war-time leader.

Contributor Bio(s): Churchill, Sir Winston S.: - Sir Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on two occasions, from 1940-1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Celebrated as one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century, he was also a gifted orator, statesman and historian. The author of more than forty books, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 and in 1963 was made an honorary citizen of the United States.