Kruger, Kommandos, and Kak: Debunking the Myths of the Boer War

Author:   Chris Ash
Publisher:   30 Degrees South Publishers
ISBN:  

9781920143992


Pages:   560
Publication Date:   01 May 2014
Format:   Paperback
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Kruger, Kommandos, and Kak: Debunking the Myths of the Boer War


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The second Boer War is the most important war in South African history; indeed, without it, South Africa would likely have not existed. But it's also one of the least understood conflicts of the era. Over a century of Leftist bleating and insidious, self-serving revisionism, first by Afrikaner nationalists and then by the apartheid regime, has left the layman with a completely skewed view of the war. Incredibly, most people will tell you that the British attacked the Boers to steal their gold, and that when the clueless, red-jacketed Tommies advanced under orders of bumptious, incompetent British generals they were mowed down in their thousands. Others think of the conflict in terms of 'Britain against South Africa' and many believe that the Boers actually won the war; the marginally more enlightened explain away the Boer defeat by claiming it took millions of British troops to beat them, or that it was only the 'genocide' of the concentration camps which forced the plucky Boers to throw in the towel. It's all bosh. This book will take everything you thought you 'knew' about the war and turn it on its head. From Kruger's expansionist dream of an Afrikaans empire 'from the Zambesi to the Cape', to the murder and devastation wrought on Natal by his invading commandos, to the savage massacres of thousands of blacks committed by the 'gallant' bitter-einders, the reader will have his eyes opened to the brutal realities of the conflict, and be forced to reassess previously held notions of the rights and wrongs of the war. Hard-hitting and uncomfortable reading for those who do not want their bubble of ignorance burst, 'Kruger, Kommandos and Kak' exposes that side of the Boer War which the apartheid propaganda machine didn't want you to know about. 50 b/w and 15 colour photographs

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Author:   Chris Ash
Publisher:   30 Degrees South Publishers
Imprint:   30 Degrees South Publishers
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.860kg
ISBN:  

9781920143992


ISBN 10:   1920143998
Pages:   560
Publication Date:   01 May 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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... for the wargamer there are also several excellent descriptions of smaller actions that could be excellent for skirmishing. * MWBG Martin Penneck 27/04/2015 *


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Chris Ash grew up in the Shetland Isles and studied at Aberdeen University. After a brief and undistinguished dalliance with the British Army (Lovat Scouts and Gordon Highlanders), he drove his Land Rover to South Africa and decided to stay. Since then, he has worked in oil and mineral exploration all over Africa and the Middle East. His interest in South African history was sparked by watching Zulu and Breaker Morant as a child, ameliorated by countless drunken arguments over the years. He is a regular speaker on the remarkable life of Dr Leander Starr Jameson, the subject of his first book, The If Man. Away from work and history, Ash enjoys cricket, rugby, upsetting the politically-correct, J&B and messing about in Landies. He is married to the long-suffering Stefanie and commutes between Johannesburg and Abidjan.

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