This collections of essays by leading British and South African scholars, looking at the Boer War, focuses on three aspects: how the British Military functioned; the role of the Boers, Afrikaners and Zulus; and the media presentation of the war to the public.
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'The English here are like things with their tails cut off, wrote the young radical Lloyd George, in Welsh, of the parliamentary reaction to the news that as late as March 1902 the Boers were capable of defeating a sizeable British column and capturing the general in command after some of his men had run away.1 Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, War Office, Cape Colony, Vryheid District, Illustrated London News, Orange Free State, Prime Minister, Zululand Police, Brown Military Collection, Lord Roberts, Black Watch, Chief of Staff, Daily Mail, Spion Kop, First Army Corps, Cape Town, Caton Woodville, Imperial Yeomanry, Modder River, Morning Post, Elgin Commission, Lord Methuen, Gordon Highlanders, Lord Kitchener, Queen Victoria New!
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'The English here are like things with their tails cut off, wrote the young radical Lloyd George, in Welsh, of the parliamentary reaction to the news that as late as March 1902 the Boers were capable of defeating a sizeable British column and capturing the general in command after some of his men had run away.1 Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
South Africa, War Office, Cape Colony, Vryheid District, Illustrated London News, Orange Free State, Prime Minister, Zululand Police, Brown Military Collection, Lord Roberts, Black Watch, Chief of Staff, Daily Mail, Spion Kop, First Army Corps, Cape Town, Caton Woodville, Imperial Yeomanry, Modder River, Morning Post, Elgin Commission, Lord Methuen, Gordon Highlanders, Lord Kitchener, Queen Victoria New!
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- Queen Victoria (Great Lives) by Dorothy Turner on 9 pages
- Lord Salisbury: A Political Biography by Dr E David Steele on 5 pages
- The Boer War by Denis Judd on 5 pages
- Lord Methuen and the British Army: Failure and Redemption in South Africa by Stephen M. Miller on 4 pages
- Selections from the Smuts Papers: Volume 1, June 1886-May 1902 by W. K. Hancock in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Depictions and Images of War in Edwardian Newspapers 1899-1914 by Glenn R. Wilkinson on 5 pages
- The Boer War by Denis Judd on 5 pages
- The International Impact of the Boer War by Keith Wilson on 4 pages
- Big Wars and Small Wars: The British Army and the Lessons of War in the 20th Century (Military History and Policy) by Hew Strachan in Front Matter, page 33, and page 35
- Rule Britannia: Women, Empire, and Victorian Writing by Deirdre David on page 184, page 185, and page 186
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