{"product_id":"boer-war-pb-w3","title":"Thomas Pakenham: BOER WAR - W3 [1991] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeaturing previously unpublished sources, this 'enjoyable as well as massively impressive' bestseller is a definitive account of the Boer War (\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, 'no end of a lesson'. It proved to be the longest, the costliest, the bloodiest and the most humiliating campaign that Britain fought between 1815 and 1914.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas Pakenham's narrative is based on first-hand and largely unpublished sources ranging from the private papers of the leading protagonists to the recollections of survivors from both sides. Mammoth in scope and scholarship, as vivid, fast-moving and breathtakingly compelling as the finest fiction. \u003ci\u003eThe Boer War\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive account of this extraordinary conflict - a war precipitated by greed and marked by almost inconceivable blundering and brutalities...and whose shattering repercussions can be felt to this very day.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Not only a magnum opus, it is a conclusive work ... Enjoyable as well as massively impressive' -\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This is a wonderful book: brilliantly written ... the reader turns each page with increasing fascination and admiration' -A.J.P. Taylor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pakenham, Thomas","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47111121338707,"sku":"XV80349104669","price":10.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":44270112178466,"sku":"9780349104669","price":19.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":47244276597075,"sku":"XG80349104669","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/pakenham-thomas-thomas-pakenham-boer-war-w3-1991-paperback-59975915503955.jpg?v=1731130860","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/boer-war-pb-w3","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}