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  The Boer War

  by Thomas Pakenham

  The Boers of South Africa responded to Britain's annexation of the gold-and-diamond-rich Transvaal region by declaring war on October 11, 1899. The English believed the fighting would be over by Christmas -- never dreaming they were on the brink of one of the longest, bloodiest, most costly and humiliating military campaigns in their history. Mammoth in scope and scholarship, as vivid, fast-moving and... (more)
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  The Forsyte Chronicles

  The Forsyte Saga

  The Man of Property / In Chancery / To Let

  by John Galsworthy

  The Forsyte Saga is John Galsworthy's monumental chronicle of the lives of the moneyed Forsytes, a family whose values are constantly at war with its passions. The story of Soames Forsyte's marriage to the beautiful and rebellious Irene, and its effects upon the whole Forsyte clan, The Forsyte Saga is a brilliant social satire of the acquisitive sensibilities of a comfort-bound class in its final glory. Galsworthy... (more)
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  The National Army Museum Book of the Boer War

  by Michael Carver

  A military history of what was Britain's first modern war, written with original sources. Published in cooperation with the National Army Museum, it quotes extensively from the Museum's unpublished archive of diaries, letters, and documents. The text is complemented by unpublished photographs from the Museum's collections, together with seven detailed maps devised by Lord Carver.
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  Courtney 1: Book 2

  The Sound of Thunder

  by Wilbur Smith

  aka The Roar of ThunderBy a cruel twist of fate, Sean Courtney falls under the command of his resentful brother Garrick in the bloody Boer War. One brother returns a hero, the other a coward.
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  The Opal Seekers

  by Patricia Shaw

  1898. Battling deprivation in Ireland, Trella Court has no choice but to turn her husband's brother Brodie out of the house. What else could she do with a family to feed? A bitter Brodie travels to Dublin, where he's offered a passage to Australia -- a land, it's rumoured, of untold riches. Arriving in Brisbane, Brodie is soon recruited by the owner of Fairlea cattle station. But the sight of a dazzling opal... (more)
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  The Great Boer War

  by Arthur Conan Doyle

  Take a community of Dutchmen of the type of those who defended themselves for fifty years against all the power of Spain at a time when Spain was the greatest power in the world. Intermix with them a strain of those inflexible French Huguenots who gave up home and fortune and left their country for ever at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The product must obviously be one of the most rugged,... (more)
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  The Boer War (Men-at-Arms)

  by Christopher Wilkinson-Latham

  This book examines the uniforms, equipment, history and organisation of the armies that fought in the Boer War. Both sides are covered, and the campaigns summarised. Uniforms are shown in full illustrated detail.
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  Marching As To War: Canada's Turbulent Years

  by Pierre Berton

  “I have called this period Canada’s Turbulent Years – turbulent not only because of the battles we fought on the African veldt, the ravaged meadows of Flanders, the forbidding spine of Italy, and the conical hills of Korea, but turbulent in other ways. These were Canada’s formative years, when she resembled an adolescent, grappling with the problems of puberty, often at odds with her parents, craving to be treated... (more)
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  The Passionate Friends a Novel and Three Essays (The Works of H.G. Wells - Volume 18)

  by H.G. Wells

  Herbert George Wells (1866-1946), an English writer best known for science fiction novels, was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction. He produced works in many genres, including contemporary novels, history, and social commentary.
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  The Boer War: Historiography and Annotated Bibliography (Bibliographies of Battles and Leaders)

  by Fred R. Van Hartesveldt

  One hundred years after the Boer War, the British continue to debate what went wrong, while the war has significant nationalist overtones in today's South Africa. This book examines changes in interpretations of the war and provides a bibliography of major sources on the Boer War, now sometimes called the South African War. The bibliography focuses on the military history, but also includes some historical... (more)
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  Rutland's Guns

  by Roger Carpenter

  1900 - Peter Rutland, now a Major in the Royal Artillery, is posted to Cape Province in the early part of 1900 to trial a new type of gun under battlefield conditions against the Boers. He finds this campaign completely different from any other action he has been in before, and he is unsure about the validity of the reasons for fighting these farmers. His family relationships turn this campaign into a personal... (more)
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  The Witch's Head

  by H. Rider Haggard

  An African fantasy of adventure and the supernatural by the author of King Solomon's Mines.
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  A Handbook of the Boer War

  by Gale and Polden Limited

  With General Map of South Africa and 18 Sketch Maps and Plans
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  The Last Lion: Book 2

  The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill

  Alone, 1932-1940

  by William Manchester

  The long-awaited second volume of the best Churchill biography reveals the true portrait of this ambitious world leader. Discussion centers on the alarm he sounded about the terrible plot being hatched inside Hitler's deranged mind. Two 8-page photos inserts.
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  Churchill's Empire: The World That Made Him and the World He Made

  by Richard Toye

  The imperial aspect of Churchill's career tends to be airbrushed out, while the battles against Nazism are heavily foregrounded A charmer and a bully, Winston Churchill was driven by a belief that the English were a superior race, whose goals went beyond individual interests to offer an enduring good to the entire world. No better example exists than Churchill's resolve to stand alone against a more powerful... (more)
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  At The World's End

  by Alan Moreton

  The year is 1899 and England is in turmoil over the Boer war taking place in South Africa; a serious threat to the integrity of the British Empire. The Shutes, a typical Victorian family, are being torn apart as their traditional way of life is threatened both by the war and the involvement of their two eldest daughters, Violet and Primrose, in the Suffragist movement. George Shute, the eldest son, is a professor... (more)
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  The Power of One: Book 1

  Power of One

  by Bryce Courtenay

  In this majestic novel, an irresistible boy tells the story of his survival and coming of age against the background of South Africa, during and just after World War II.