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