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100			_aChurchill, Winston
245		4	_aThe Boer War
245		0	_cChurchill, Winston
260			_bRandom House _c2002
300			_a452 pages
520			_aThe first shots of the Boer War were fired at Kraaipan on 12 October 1899. Winston Churchill, though he had left his regiment, the 4th Hussars, in the previous March, was eager as ever to be within the sound of guns and wasted no time in getting himself accredited to the Morning post as war correspondent. He sailed from Southampton aboard the Dunottar Castle on 14 October and reached Cape town on the 31st.For the next eight months he filed his copy regularly for the MORNING POST and it is these Despatches which were later reprinted in book form as LONDON TO LADYSMITH VIA PRETORIA and IAN HAMILTON'S MARCH. As Both are comparatively short and as the one follows on from the other, they have since been published together under the title THE BOER WAR.In both books Churchill adopts the personal approach and recounts his own experiences set against the background of the War rather than attempting to give a picture of the conflict as a whole. As he says himself, " Sometimes it happens that these letters are devoted to describing small incidents, and often personal experience, in a degree of detail which, if the rest of the campaign were equally narrated, would expand the account to limits far beyond the industry of the writer or the patience of the reader." What emerges is a vivid and dramatic picture of the conditions under which the war was fought and the problems which confronted the long untried British Army when Faced with the Dogged and Determined resistance of the Boers.
650			_aHistory
942			_cENGLISH
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