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BOOKS


The Anatomy of an Antiwar Movement: The Pro-Boers, edited by Stephen E. Koss. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1973. 280 p.
Book call no.: 968.2 K86a

Avant, Deborah D. Political Institutions and Military Change: Lessons from Peripheral Wars. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1994. 162 p.
The Boer War and Malaya: Why the British Army Adapted, pp 102-129.
Book call no.: 322.5 A946p

Belfield, Eversley M. The Boer War. Hamden, CT, Archon Books, 1975. 181 p.
Book call no.: 968.2 B428b

Churchill, Winston S., Sir. The Boer War: London to Ladysmith Via Pretoria; Ian Hamilton's March. New York, W. W. Norton, 1989. 405 p.
Book call no.: 92 C563bg

Clodfelter, Micheal. Warfare and Armed Conflicts. Jefferson, NC, McFarland, 1992. 2 vols.
Volume One--South African (Second Boer) War: 1899-1902, pp 357-362.
Book call no.: R 904.7 C643w

Davenport, T. R. H. South Africa: A Modern History. 4th ed. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1991. 662 p.
The Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902, pp 191-200.
Book call no.: 968 D247s 1991

De Wet, Christiaan Rudolf. Three Years' War. New York, Scribner's Sons, 1902. 448 p.
Book call no.: 968.2 D51t

Farwell, Byron. The Great Anglo-Boer War. New York, Harper & Row, 1976. 495 p.
Book call no.: 968.2 F247g

Ferguson, John H. American Diplomacy and the Boer War. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, 1939. 240 p.
Book call no.: 327.730682 F352a

Field, Laurence M. The Forgotten War: Australian Involvement in the South African Conflict of 1899-1902. Carlton, Victoria, Melbourne University Press, 1979. 236 p.
Book call no.: 968.048 F454f

Forrest, George William, Sir. The Life of Lord Roberts, K.G., V. C., . New York, F. A. Stokes Co., 1915. 1 vol.
The Boer War: Relief of Kimberly, pp 196-218.
Paardeberg, pp 219-243.
Capture of Cronje, pp 244-262.
Advance on Bloemfontein, pp 263-272.
Johannesburg and Pretoria, pp 273-301.
Close of Great Operations in Africa, pp 302-323.
Book call no.: 92 R644f

Gardner, Brian. Mafeking: A Victorian Legend. New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967. 246 p.
Discusses the siege of Mafeking during the Boer War.
Book call no.: 968.2 G226m

Gibbs, Peter. Death of the Last Republic: The Story of the Anglo-Boer War. London, F. Muller, 1957. 302 p.
Book call no.: 968.2 G443d

Great Powers and Little Wars: The Limits of Power, edited by A. Hamish Ion and E. J. Errington. Westport, CT, Praeger, 1993. 246 p.
The Boer War, by Thomas Pakenham, pp 105-123.
Book call no.: 355.0215 G786

Griffith, Kenneth. Thank God We Kept the Flag Flying: The Siege and Relief of Ladysmith 1899-1900. New York, Viking Press, 1974. 398 p.
Also includes basic information on the war and information on the Battle of Elandslaagte.
Book call no.: 968.4 G853t

Hancock, W. K. Smuts: The Sanguine Years 1870-1919. Cambraidge, Eng., Cambraidge University Press, 1962. 619 p.
War and Peace (Anglo-Boer War), pp 67-204.
Book call no.: 92 S6661h v.1

Herbert, Edwin. The Second Anglo-Boer War. New York, Sterling Publishing, 1990. 95 p.
Book call no.: 973.92 H536s

Hobson, John. A. The War in South Africa: Its Causes and Effects. London, J. Nisbet, 1900. 324 p.
Book call no.: 968.2 H684w2

Holt, Edgar. The Boer War. London, Putnam, 1958. 317 p.
Book call no.: 968.2 H758b

Kruger, Rayne. Good-Bye Dolly Gray: The Story of the Boer War. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1960. 507 p.
Book call no.: 968.2 K94g

Lee, Emanoel C. G. To the Bitter End: A Photographic History of the Boer War 1899-1902. London, Viking, 1985. 226 p.
Book call no.: 968.048 L477t

Longford, Elizabeth Harman Pakenham, Countess of. Jameson's Raid: The Prelude to the Boer War. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1982. 314 p.
Book call no.: 968.4 L853j

Macdonald, John. Great Battlefields of the World. New York, Macmillan Publlishing, 1984. 200 p.
Colenso/15 December 1899, pp 118-125.
Book call no.: R 904.7 M135g

Marix-Evans, Martin. Encyclopedia of the Boer War. Santa Barbara, CA, ABC-Clio, 2000. 414 p.
Book call no.: 968.04803 M343e

Miller, Carman. Painting the Map Red: Canada and the South African War, 1899-1902. Montreal, Canadian War Museum and McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993. 541 p.
Book call no.: 968.0484 M647p

The Milner Papers, edited by Cecil Headlam. London, Cassell, 1931. 2 vols.
Sir Alfred Milner was the British Governor of the Cape Colony and High Commissioner of South Africa during the second Boer War.
Volume 2--South Africa 1899-1905 contains numerous papers concerned with the Boer War.
Book call no.: 968 M659m

Mulanax, Richard B. The Boer War in American Politics and Diplomacy. Lanham, MD, University Press of America, 1994. 237 p.
Book call no.: 968.0482 M954b

Nutting, Anthony. Scramble for Africa: The Great Trek to the Boer War. New York, Dutton, 1970. 454 p.
War, pp 416-430.
Book call no.: 968 N986s

Pakenham, Thomas. The Boer War. New York, Random House, 1979. 718 p.
Book call no.: 968.2 P152b

Pakenham, Thomas. The Boer War. Illustrated ed. New York, Random House, 1993. 304 p.
Very different from the 718 page 1979 edition.
Book call no.: 968.2 P152b 1993

Patterson, Sheila. The Last Trek: A Study of the Boer People and the Afrikaner Nation. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1957. 336 p.
See index under "Anglo-Boer War" for specific references
Book call no.: 968 P318L

Pemberton, William Baring. Battles of the Boer War. London, B. T. Batsford, 1964. 216 p.
Book call no.: 968.2 P395b

Perry, James Moorhead. Arrogant Armies: Great Military Disasters and the Generals Behind Them. New York, John Wiley, 1996. 314 p.
Book call no.: 904.7 P463a

Prussia (Kingdom). Armee. Grosser Generalstab. Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II. The War in South Africa, translated by Colonel W. H. H. Waters. London, John Murray, 1907. 280 p.
Prepared by the Historical Section of the Great General Staff, Berlin for armed forces training purposes. Also known as the German Official Account of the War in South Africa.
Book call no.: 968.2 P95w

Prussia (Kingdom). Armee. Grosser Generalstab. Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung II. The War in South Africa: The Advance to Pretoria after Paardeberg, the Upper Tugela Campaign, Etc, translated by Hubert du Cane. New York, Negro Universities Press, 1969. 374 p.
Prepared by the Historical Section of the Great General Staff, Berlin.
Book call no.: 968.2 P972w

Reader's Digest Association South Africa. Illustrated History of South Africa: The Real Story. Cape Town, South Africa, 1994. 512 p.
Causes of the South African War, pp 238-243.
South African War: The Formal War, pp 244-253.
South African War: The Informal War, pp 254-261.
Book call no.: 968 R286

Reitz, Deneys. Boer Commando: An Afrikaner Journal of the Boer War. New York, Sarpedon, 1993. 286 p.
Book call no.: 968.2 R379c 1993

Sampson, Victor and Hamilton, Ian. Anti-Commando. London, Faber & Faber Limited, 1931. 1 vol.
Based on Sir Aubrey Wools-Sampson's Boer War experiences. Includes information and maps on the Battle of Elandslaagte 1899, action at Roodewal 1902, the siege of Ladysmith, and decisions of various commanders.
Book call no.: 92 W916s

Sandys, Celia. Churchill: Wanted Dead or Alive. New York, Carroll and Graf, 2000. 233 p.
Discusses Churchill as a journalist during the South African War.
Book call no.: 92 C563ci

Sibbald, Raymond. The Boer War. Dover, NH, Alan Sutton, 1994. 244 p.
Book call no.: 968.0488 S563b

Smith, Iain R. The Origins of the South African War, 1899-1902. New York, Longman, 1996. 455 p.
Book call no.: 968.0481 S649o

Stone, Jay and Schmidl, Erwin A. The Boer War and Military Reforms. Lanham, MD, University Press of America, 1988. 345 p.
Book call no.: 355.00941 S878b

Swinton, Ernest Dunlop. The Defence of Duffer's Drift. Wayne, NJ, Avery Publishing Group, 1986. 72 p.
Book call no.: 355.04 S979d 1986

Symons, Julian. Buller's Campaign. London, Cresset Press, 1963. 312 p.
Book call no.: 92 B936s

Taylor, Alan J. P. From the Boer War to the Cold War: Essays on Twentieth-Century Europe. 1st American ed. New York, Allen Lane, 1995. 454 p.
The Jameson Raid, pp 33-35.
The Boer War, pp 36-38.
Book call no.: 940 T238fa

Trew, Peter. The Boer War Generals. New York, Sutton, 1999. 274 p.
Book call no.: 968.04808 T817b

United States. Adjutant-General's Office. Military Information Division. Reports on Military Operations in South Africa and China, July 1901. Washington, GPO, 1901. 600 p.
Offers detailed information on the Boer War from two American military attaches in South Africa at the time. Reports Nos.1-4 cover the operations of the British Army.
Report No.1 covers from Nov 1899 to Jan 1990 and includes details of the Battle of Colenso, pp 9-20.
Report No.2 covers Jan to Mar 1900 and the battles of Paardeberg, Driefontein, Lord Roberts forces, etc, pp 21-54.
Report No.3 covers Mar-Apr 1900, pp 54-64.
Report No.4 covers the advance from Bloemfontein to Pretoria, pp 65-92.
Report on the Operations of the Boer Army, pp 93-259.
Brief Summary of Military Operations in South Africa, pp 261-325.
Book call no.: 968.2 U58r

United States. War Dept. General Staff. Selected Translations Pertaining to the Boer War. Washington, GPO, 1905. 243 p.
Includes essays on various aspects such as: The Late South African War and Its Lessons, Tactical Deductions from the Boer War, German Tactical Ideas: The Influence of the South African War, etc.
Book call no.: 968.2 Un3 no.244

Wilkinson, Spenser. War and Policy. New York, Dodd, Mead, 1900. 443 p.
Part V: South African War, pp 347-436 (includes chapters on the military aspects, moral factors, surprise in war, a comparision of the Boer War to the American Civil War, etc).
Book call no.: 355 W686w

Young, Peter and Calvert, Michael. A Dictionary of Battles, 1816-1976. New York, Mayflower Books, 1977. 604 p.
This fourth volume in a set offers brief descriptions of various South African battles (Colenso, Kimberley, Ladysmith, Mafeking, etc). Each battle description includes the strength, aim, and results.
Book call no.: R 904 Y75d v.4
 

 

 
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