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The forgotten front : untold stories of the Anglo-Boer War in the Karoo
Title
The forgotten front : untold stories of the Anglo-Boer War in the Karoo / Michael de Jongh, Belinda Gordon.
ISBN
9780620786997
062078699X
Publication
[South Africa?] : The Watermark Press, 2018.
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
xiv, 264 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, facsimiles ; 26 x 21 cm
Summary
"The significance of confrontations along the southern or central front during the Anglo-Boer war has inclined to be under-reported and hence strategically under-emphasised. In this chronicle the authors have not only undertaken to facilitate recollective justice to this 'forgotten front', but have done so particularly by means of the untold stories of the local people and common soldiers. The unmediated experiences of previously voiceless people during turmoil in a small Karoo community are brought sharply into focus--though projected of necessity against the reality of the animosity, ravages, and casualties of war."--back cover.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 28, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-264)
Contents
Maps & illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preamble
Distant thunder, rumours of rain? Portents of strife
Confronted with conflict; Colesberg annexed
Colesberg environs: the ebb and flow of battle
The battle of Suffolk Hill
'Cannon' on Coleskop, enter De la Rey
French departs, De la Rey makes his move
The turn of the tide: The Khakis in Colesberg
Trials and tribulations: Colesberg under Roberts
Commandos around Colesberg: Kitchener's ruthless response
The amaBhulu versus the amaNgesi: but not a 'white man's war' (and certainly not 'a gentleman's war')
Another year beginning and the beginning of the end
Conclusion
Addenda
Bibliography.
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