A comprehensive work which looks at the role of Australia and Australians in the Boer War. Commissioned by the Australian War Memorial, it seeks to remember the often forgotten sacrifice made by Australia in the British war effort. BNS, 512pp, UK. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Part of the Battles of the Anglo Boer War series offering accessible historical guides to the major battles of the war. Designed to assist the reader in interpreting the terrain and understanding the events, it includes contemporary accounts and photographs, some of which have never been published before. Especially commissioned maps show in detail the routes and dispositions of the opposing forces. iv, 44pp, SOUTH AFRICA. RAVAN PRESS.

Part of the 'Battles of the Anglo Boer War' series offering accessible historical guides to the major battles of the war. Designed to assist the reader in interpreting the terrain and understanding the events, it includes contemporary accounts and photographs, some of which have never been published before. Especially commissioned maps show in detail the routes and dispositions of the opposing forces. iv, 41pp, SOUTH AFRICA. RAVAN PRESS.

1999 0869755005 Paperback

Part of the 'Battles of the Anglo Boer War' series offering accessible historical guides to the major battles of the war. Designed to assist the reader in interpreting the terrain and understanding the events, it includes contemporary accounts and photographs, some of which have never been published before. Especially commissioned maps show in detail the routes and dispositions of the opposing forces. iv, 44pp, SOUTH AFRICA. RAVAN PRESS.

Part of the 'Battles of the Anglo Boer War' series offering accessible historical guides to the major battles of the war. Designed to assist the reader in interpreting the terrain and understanding the events, it includes contemporary accounts and photographs, some of which have never been published before. Especially commissioned maps show in detail the routes and dispositions of the opposing forces. iv, 59pp, SOUTH AFRICA. RAVAN PRESS.

Part of the 'Battles of the Anglo Boer War' series offering accessible historical guides to the major battles of the war. Designed to assist the reader in interpreting the terrain and understanding the events, it includes contemporary accounts and photographs, some of which have never been published before. Especially commissioned maps show in detail the routes and dispositions of the opposing forces. iv, 43pp, SOUTH AFRICA. RAVAN PRESS.

Saga of the people of the Southern African sub-continent a century ago. It portrays the fears, prejudices and motives seen through the contemporaneous eyes of a cast of ordinary people. Their lives intersect cleverly with many of the famous figures of the era - such as J.X Merriman, Sol Plaatje and Cecil Rhodes - revealing the history of the era. 564pp, SOUTH AFRICA. SPRINGBOK PRESS.

Debunks the myth of a straightforward divide between the Boers and the British and demonstrates that the overriding aim of both sides was to maintain European supremacy. BNS, maps, ill, 320pp, UK. JOHN MURRAY, 071955585X

Examines changes in interpretations of the war and provides a bibliography that focuses on military history, but also includes some historical accounts of the political debate. The result of all this is a reference work which is a bit of a mixed bag, but is certainly well-produced and useful to anyone with a strong interest in the 1899-1902 conflict in South Africa. BNS, 272pp, USA. GREENWOOD.

2000 0313306273 Hardback

Churchill's eyewitness account of the Boer War. BNS, 432pp, UK. PIMLICO, 0712601031

The Boer War was a costly colonial conflict between the British Empire and the two independent Boer republics in South Africa. Pitting the superior armed might of British imperialism against two of the world's tiniest rural states, it nevertheless took almost three years for the Boer forces to be defeated. The war saw the first use by the British of civilian concentration camps and the employment of a 'scorched earth' policy against a European enemy, while the Boer amateur armies organised as commandos to try to hold out against defeat. Britain's eventual victory laid the foundations of modern South Africa. Bill Nasson, Professor of History at the University of Stellenbosch, has fully revised and updated his earlier authoritative history of the conflict, taking account of the most recent scholarship and making use of Afrikaans sources as well as those in English. He places the Anglo-Boer War struggle of 1899-1902 in its historical context with other 'small wars', such as the more recent ones in Iraq and Afghanistan, making this an essential book not only for anyone interested in the Boer War, but also in imperial history more generally, and in Britain's overseas colonial campaigns. 352pp, UK. THE HISTORY PRESS.

An anthology of stories and poetry written by Afrikaners, Englishmen and black South Africans, who explore the trauma of the time and place from their own varied perspectives. 349pp. SOUTH AFRICA. JONATHAN BALL PUBLISHERS.

1999 1868420930 Paperback

From Aberdeen to ZARPS. Maps, chronology, index, 143pp, SOUTH AFRICA. FRANCOLIN.

1999 1868590585 Paperback

Written during the Boer War, the ten-year-old Iris Vaughan's account of her life in the small towns of the Eastern Cape is in turn honest and hilarious. She also documents the changes in South Africa with the arrival of the British army and Boer guerrilla forces. Illustrated with b/w photos. 131pp, SOUTH AFRICA. STORMBERG.

Focuses on the intricacies of alleged Afrikaner treason during the conflict, an analysis informed by a wider reading of the notion of treason. Index, bib, apps, b/w photos, 532pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PROTEA BOOK HOUSE.

An essential short history of the Boer War. Written mostly from a military perspective, it also includes details of the concentration camps and the role played by black South African in the war. Illustrated with b/w and colour maps and photographs. Index, gloss, 96pp, UK. OSPREY, 1841763969

Details a component of the Anglo-Boer War that has until now received scant attention. A4 format, b/w illus, 72pp, SOUTH AFRICA. COVOS DAY BOOKS, 0620260998

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A study of how events in South Africa helped revitalise politics in Ireland, especially during the Anglo Boer War as 'pro Boer fever' swept nationalist Ireland. As Boers poured thousands of pounds into Republican coffers, important figures such as Yeats, O'Casey, Moore and James Connolly helped stir up one of the most violent and influential pro Boer movements in Europe. BNS, 232pp, UK. ULSTER HISTORICAL FOUNDATION.

The discovery of payable gold in Witwatersrand in 1886 was seen as a sign of good fortune and prosperity for a poor and rural South Africa. However, the author shows how this discovery would lead to the first human tragedy of the twentieth century, the Boer War and the political, racial and economic inequalities which followed it would mark the country until the end of the century. An incisive work on the history of South Africa and the British Empire. Index, bib, notes, xix, 324pp, UK. WILEY.

Christiaan De Wet was one of the most famous Boer generals of the Anglo Boer war. Here the author recounts the story of a pivotal event in the war, when as a wanted man, De Wet managed to evade the British for a month and set in motion a new phase of the war. Illustrated with b/w images and includes a chronology. Index, bib, maps, notes, 240pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL PRESS.

Maps and details of locations of various battlefields located in KwaZulu Natal. Illustrated with b/w photographs. 62pp, SOUTH AFRICA. RAVAN PRESS.

1998 086975520X Paperback

An essential reference for definitive military information regarding the opposing forces and other key features of the Anglo Boer War. The handbook supplies details regarding the various military forces, medals, battles and deployments, casualties and prisoners, black participation, concentration camps, and famous names. Well illustrated with b/w images and includes a colour map of South Africa. Index, sources, ix, 272pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL PRESS.

Covers all medical aspects of the conflict, from the role of Red Cross societies to international medical aid from Germany, and the clinical dimensions of military hospitals. Includes previously unpublished photographs. Two volumes, sold as a set in a slipcase. 1120pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PROTEA BOOK HOUSE.

Marks a major shift in the study of the South African War. It turns attention from the war's much debated causes onto its more neglected consequences. An interna-tional team of scholars explores the myriad legacies of the war - for South Africa, for Britain, for the Empire and beyond. The extensive introduction sets the contri-butions in context, and the elegant afterword offers thought-provoking reflections on their cumulative significance. 336pp, UK. MACMILLAN PALGRAVE, 0333776992

The definitive listing of 25 000 people who died serving with the Imperial forces in the Anglo Boer War, including civilians and those who died during the period of occupation up to 1913. Includes details of burial, religion, age and monuments where possible. BNS, 500pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL PRESS. 0869809687

Recounts the heart-rending stories of Cape rebels and republican soldiers executed by the British during the Anglo Boer War. These previously untold tales evoke vivid scenes of the brutality and injustice. Bib, apps, b/w photos, maps, 238pp, SOUTH AFRICA. SPEARHEAD, 0864865325

One of a series of guides designed for both the battlefield visitor and the armchair traveller. There is extensive guidance on how to make the most of your battlefield visit. The historical significance of each site is described in detail with the aid of maps and photographs. B/w illus, index. 144pp. UK. LEO COOPER.

The autobiography of a woman who fought with the Boers against the English, written 35 years after the experiences it describes. 1 map, 122pp. STORMBERG PUBLISHERS.

The biographies of the major role players, generals and politicians involved in the Boer War, looking their background, character and role in the conflict. b/w photographs, 59pp, SOUTH AFRICA. RAVAN PRESS.

2001 0869755242 Paperback

Sol Plaatje's diary provides a wonderfully readable view of the siege of Mafeking, one of the most famous episodes of the South African War. For this centenary edition the editors have returned to the original manuscript of the diary. 216 pages.. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

A detailed historical documentary on the treatment of civilians by the British forces in South Africa during the Boer War. Looks at the infamous concentration camps system and the difference in treatment of black and white civilians by the military authorities. Index, sources, notes, gloss, b/w illus, 443pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JONATHAN BALL.

Challenges established accounts about the concentration camps set up by the British military during the South African War. Argues that much so-called 'memory' of the concentration camps was the product of 'post/memory' - a process in which 'what was remembered' was shaped and reshaped over time. Contains many detailed extracts from archival documents and a large number of photographs of commemorative sites. The links which are demonstrated between war memory, state commemoration and (proto-) nationalist politics exist in present-day as well as other historical examples of public remembrance, and so its conceptual and analytical framework can be used to explore many other case studies. 288pp, UK. MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS.

In 1899 over 6000 New Zealanders left from Wellington to fight for the British in South Africa. This volume examines the role of empire troops in the conflict and the repercussions at home. Index, notes, b/w photographs, 225pp, NEW ZEALAND. AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY PRESS.

The diary of a soldier serving with the British army during the Boer War. Illustrated with b/w photographs and press cuttings. Maps, 216pp, UK. EDWARD GASKELL PUBLISHERS.

A comprehensive history of Canada's involvement in the Boer War, examining the effects of the war on the country, from the rancorous debate on the wisdom of participating to the soldiers' experiences and the public perception. Index, notes, maps, illus, xvi, 541pp, CANADA AND SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL PRESS.

A study of Johannesburg before and after the Anglo-Boer war of 1899-1902. UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

Photographic history of the British concentration camps, which by the end of the Second Boer War, held over 100 000 Afrikaner women, children and elderly and over 115 000 black people. 28 000 Afrikaners perished under terrible privation in these camps, the majority under the age of sixteen. An important documentary account of this little known horror lurking in Britain's imperial past. Index, 292pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN & ROUSSEAU.

2001 0798141921 Hardback

An accessible guide to the siege of Kimberley and the battle of Magersfontein in which the Boer tactics of guerrilla warfare came into its own. Maps, b/w illus, 59pp, SOUTH AFRICA. RAVAN.

First published in 1987. Illustrated account of the Boer wars. B/w ill, notes, bib, index, 176pp, UK. CASSELL.

This full-size facsimile reprint comes with a succinct new foreword that places De Wet in his times as well as giving the generals later history. This eye-witness account of the Boer War, apart from highlighting the often brilliant Boer guerrilla tactics, kills of any notion that this was a gentlemanly conflict. There have been many account from a British point of view, but this is a fascinating first-person account from the Boer point of view. Index, b/w photos, 459pp, SOUTH AFRICA. GALAGO BOOKS.

Highlights the problems of British imperial overstretch, as the Boers defeated General Colley's forces at the decisive Battle of Majuba in February 1881, against a background of divisive social, ideological, racial and economic divisions in nineteenth century South Africa, which culminated in the crisis of the second Boer War, 1899 1902. Thorough accounts of battles and analyses of the military cultures of mismatched opponents give this account its particular strength. Index, bib, maps, b/w illus, 264pp, UK. PEARSON EDUCATION.

Imaginative retelling of the Anglo Boer War from the perspective of the losing side in a newspaper format. Attempts to answer the question: how did the Boers experience the war? Index, bib, notes, 157pp, A3 format, SOUTH AFRICA.

What difference did the Anglo-Boer War make to Durban? What impact did it have on the political, military, social and economic life of the town? The unique patterns of events in Durban during these is indeed a rich one, involving subjects as diverse as guns and cattlemen, ambulance trains and contraband, concentration camps and volunteer regiments. Lavishly illustrated. 416pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PROTEA BOOK HOUSE.

Why did the British win the Anglo-Boer War? Although there is truth in the simple statement that they were much stronger than the Boers, it does not explain everything. Therefore, the main focus of this book is to analyse the most important strategic and operational decisions made on both sides, and to measure them according to accepted modern military theory. It argues that both the British and Boer war efforts were very haphazard at the beginning, but that both learnt as the war went on. In the end, the British got the Boers in a vice from which they could not escape. BNS, 216pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

Facsimile reprint of the diary kept by Dominee Lückhoff, the chaplain of during the Bethulie concentration camp in the Anglo-Boer War. 67pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PROTEA BOOK HOUSE.