Kruger's War: The Truth Behind the Myths of the Boer War

摘要

Get into conversation with an Afrikaner in South Africa and the subject of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) will come up, and with it the assertions. The story rarely changes: the great British imperial bully picked a fight with two peaceable, harmless, happy Boer republics to grab the Johannesburg gold mines; thousands of innocent women and children murdered in concentration camps; blundering British soldiers and bone-headed generals outclassed at every turn by the courageous Boer. But just about everything about this narrative is either misleading or wrong.