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In The Boer War, winner of the Netherland's 2013 Libris History Prize and shortlisted for the 2013 AKO Literature Prize, the author brings a completely new perspective to this chapter of South African history, critically examining the involvement of the Netherlands in the war. Furthermore, unlike other accounts, Martin Bossenbroek explores the war primarily through the experiences of three men uniquely active during the bloody conflict. They are Willem Leyds, the Dutch lawyer who was to become South African Republic state secretary and eventual European envoy; Winston Churchill, then a British war reporter; and Deneys Reitz, a young Boer commando. The vivid and engaging experiences of these three men enable a more personal and nuanced story of the war to be told, and at the same time offer a fresh approach to a conflict that shaped the nation state of South Africa.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781609807481 |
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Publisher: | Seven Stories Press |
Publication date: | 01/30/2018 |
Sold by: | Penguin Random House Publisher Services |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 464 |
File size: | 9 MB |
About the Author
Translator YVETTE ROSENBERG was born in Johannesburg and educated at the universities of Cape Town and Natal. After immigrating to the Netherlands, she was employed as a translator and editor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in The Hague from 1983 to 2005. Since 1995 she has also worked on numerous freelance translation projects, including for the Van Gogh Museum and the Rijksmuseum. She lives in Amsterdam and Cape Town.
Table of Contents
Prologue - Heritage Day Bloenfontein, 24 September 2011 vii
Part I For a good Cause June 1884 - Octoer 1899
An extraordinary meeting (Amsterdam, June 1884) 1
For thou art dust (Pretoria, October 1884) 11
Hunger for land (Veertienstroom, January 1885) 18
Gold (Johannesburg, January 1887) 29
Concessions (Pretoria, June 1887) 39
Boers and Hollanders, love and hate (Amsterdam, November 1889) 49
Rhodes & Company (Pretoria, July 1892) 57
Lifeline (Lourenço Marques, July 1895) 67
To arms (Berlin, January 1896 79
Diamond Jubilee (London, May 1897) 91
A parting of ways (Pretoria, February 1898) 100
Last chances (Atlantic Ocean, January 1899) 111
Part II Like a boys' adventure story October 1899 - June 1900
Rule, Britannia! (Southampton, 14 October 1899) 133
War on four fronts (Cape Town, 31 October 1899) 141
A hail of bullets (Chieveley, 15 November 1899) 151
The rules of warfare (Pretoria, 18 November 1899) 160
The abandoned mine (Witbank, 15 December 1899) 172
A warm welcome (Durban, 23 December 1899) 181
Blind spot (Spion Kop, 24 January 1900) 195
Breakthrouhg (Monte Cristo, 18 February 1990) 206
Fever (Ladysmith, 3 March 1900) 218
Colums on the move (Bloemfontein, 16 April 1900) 230
Colour (Kroonstad, 12 May 1900) 238
Victory (Pretoria, 5 June 1900) 251
Part III Death and destruction June 1900 - May 1902
Adrift (Pretoria, June 1900) 269
Flushing out the foe (Bronkhorstspruit, July 1900) 280
His own way (Lydenburg, October 1900) 292
Foreign territory (Warmbaths, November 1900) 301
Guilty landscape (Naauwpoort, December 1900) 312
Dead horse (Ou Wapad, February 1901) 324
Winter of famine (Tafelkop, April 1901) 335
Benished for life (Zastron, August 1901) 347
Black death (Herschel, September 1901) 357
Foray (Suurberg, October 1901) 369
Retaliation (Leliefontein, March 1902) 380
The bitter end (Concordia, April 1902) 391
Epilogue - Winners and losers Bloemfontein, 6 July 2012 404
Notes 412
Bibliography 430
Index 440