Why the Boers Lost the War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why the Boers Lost the War write by L. Scholtz. This book was released on 2004-05-04. Why the Boers Lost the War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 is shown 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.
Four-War Boer
Four-War Boer - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Four-War Boer write by Colin D. Heaton. This book was released on 2014-01-19. Four-War Boer available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This “fascinating” biography of a South African-born warrior provides a window into a full century of military conflicts(Adam Makos, New York Times–bestselling author of A Higher Call). Four-War Boer traces Pieter Krueler’s highly colorful life from the Second Boer War, where he first served as a fourteen-year-old scout, to his service in World War I with the German army in East Africa to the Spanish Civil War to World War II, this time with the Allies, and on into the latter part of the twentieth century, when he served as a mercenary during the 1960s Congo Crisis. Later, in his eighties, he became a civilian trainer for the original Selous Scouts of Rhodesia and, later still, a trainer for South African commandos. The book follows Krueler through a remarkable career that included, among other adventures, leading native African soldiers on extremely dangerous missions in the Belgian Congo; volunteering as a mercenary during the Spanish Civil War, during which he worked with the Pyrenees Basque movement; serving as a coast watcher to keep South Africa safe from German incursion; and fighting alongside Michael Hoare during the 1960s Congo Crisis. A chapter is devoted to the formation of Rhodesia’s highly elite Selous Scouts, along with highlights of several previously classified missions. This material includes a wealth of new information, and breaks the secrecy surrounding Rhodesian and South African special operations, as unveiled through the experience of a man who was a founding father of counterinsurgency in Africa. Based on six years of historical research through hard-to-find secondary and published primary sources, as well as extensive interviews with Krueler himself, and interviews with German officers and others who knew and worked with him, this biography is filled with extensive first-person testimony that gives it the immediacy of a memoir.
Boer Wars
Boer Wars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Boer Wars write by Henry Freeman. This book was released on 2017-02-28. Boer Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As General Patton once said, “The Boers? Those sons of bitches fight for the hell of it." The reputation of the Boer is not entirely unearned. At a time when South Africa was a place inhabited by the toughest of men, only those who lived in the saddle with a gun in their hands could possibly survive. Inside you will read about... ✓ The Creation of the Boer ✓ Growing Tensions ✓ Colley Steps In ✓ The End of the First War ✓ The Jameson Raid ✓ Stage One: The Boer Offensive ✓ Stage Two: The Empire Strikes Back ✓ Stage Three: Scorched Earth ✓ The End of the Boer Who were the Boers, and what was the conflict that would lead them into a fight to the death with England in the First and Second Anglo-Boer wars? Was this a colonial uprising? Or a freedom-fight gone horribly wrong?
The Boer War 1899–1902
The Boer War 1899–1902 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Boer War 1899–1902 write by Gregory Fremont-Barnes. This book was released on 2014-06-06. The Boer War 1899–1902 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Victorious in its previous campaigns in Africa against native armies, Britain now confronted an altogether different foe. The Boers proved to be formidable opponents, masterfully compensating for inferior numbers with grim determination, resourcefulness and strong religious faith. Their mobility, expert use of cover, and knowledge of the terrain, in which they employed powerful long-range magazine rifles, gave them initial advantages. By contrast the British suffered from inadequate transport, insufficient mounted troops and poor intelligence. Despite marshalling the immense resources of their empire, the British were to be severely tested in a war which one general described as 'the graveyard of many a soldier's reputation'.
Boer War Illustrated
Boer War Illustrated - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Boer War Illustrated write by Thomas Pakenham. This book was released on 1993. Boer War Illustrated available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
