The Great Anglo-Boer War [Sheet music]

Byron Farwell (Author)

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• Publisher: Harper & Row; 1St Edition edition (1976)
• Language: German
• ISBN-10: 0060112042
• ISBN-13: 978-0060112042
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,716,330 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Informative, enjoyable, definitive, August 22, 2006

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Stratiotes Doxha Theon "2 Thes 2:15" (Richmond, Missouri) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Great Anglo-Boer War (Paperback)

Quite easily the best book on the topic of the second Anglo-Boer war. If there were but one book you read concerning this timely subject, it is this one. The author leads the reader on a fast-paced but thorough and enjoyable tour of the people and places involved. The intermixture of battlefield strategic and tactical decisions are interspersed with human stories of the men who carried out the orders and the political forces that fueled the conflict. A must have for the panoramic big picture with detail enough to satisfy the most avid military historian. It is a work I come back to again and again.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent non-academic history of the war..., November 4, 2000

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Grognard "Joe" (La Crescenta, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Great Anglo-Boer War (Paperback)

This is an absorbing, well written account of a neglected (by American readers anyway) war at the turn of the last century. Rather than being a dry academic text, Farwell's writing style serves to bring the war to life 100 years after the fact. Seamlessly mixing descriptions of tactical battlefield and operational decisions with the geo-political/strategic back drop of the war, intertwining the personal narratives of the men who were carrying out orders and executing political/military decisions (which I'd say was very "Ken Burns" if Farwell's book didn't pre-date Burns' work by almost a decade).

Coupled with other accounts of the war, like Goodbye Dolly Gray (another excellent book) written by Rayne Kruger, the average reader can understand some of the causal factors of South Africa's apartied system and gain an insight into the history of a long troubled region.

I wholeheartedly recommend this book to any reader looking for a fast-paced non-academic history of the Boer War. You won't go wrong.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb, May 11, 2006

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A. Gullicksen "ghost squire" (Boothbay Harbor, ME USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Great Anglo-Boer War (Paperback)

Simply put, one of the greatest, most detailed and yet most readable histories, military or otherwise, to ever have been published. If you have even a passing interest in history, this book is for you. The parallels that can be drawn to our present day situation in the middle east are shocking, and this book was written quite a while ago.