Updated 3rd June 2004

Boer War Bibliography

 

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The following is not a comprehensive list of all material about the Boer War, but it

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The Boer War  by Thomas Pakenham

Published by Weidenfield & Nicholson 1979 ISBN 0 297 77395 X

 

Painting The Map Red, by Carman Miller

 

 Canada's Sons On Kopje and Veldt  by Thomas Marquis.

 

Kruger's Gold: A novel of the Anglo-Boer War by Sidney Allinson (a member of the Boer War list!)

 

The Cape Commando Series

No 1, Commandant Johannes Lotter and his Rebels,

ISBN 0620227818, published 1998.
No 2, Commandant Gideon Scheepers and the Search for his Grave
 ISBN 0620245344, published 1999.
No 3, General Jan Smuts and his Long Ride,

ISBN 062026750X, published 2000.
No 4, The Brave Boer Boy and Other Stories,

ISBN 0620298693, published 2002.

All are privately printed and written by Taffy and David Shearing (members of the Boer War list!)

With The Flag To Pretoria, H.W Wilson, Harmsworth Publishers, London,1900.


After Pretoria: The Guerilla War, H.W Wilson, Harmsworth, London, 1902.
 
The Struggle For Africa 1876-1912, Thomas Packenham, Random House, New York, 1991.


The Times History Of The War In South Africa, L.S. Amery, Sampson Low, London, 1903.


Queen Victoria's Little Wars, Byron Farwell, Norton, NY, 1986.


The War in South Africa, John A. Hobson, Nisbet, London, 1900.

The Great Boer War, Byron Farwell, London, 1977.


The Last of The Gentlemen's Wars, J.EC. Fuller, London, 1937.


The Jameson Raid, H.M. Hole, London, 1930.


The Biograph In War, W.K.L. Dickson, Fisher Unwin, 1901.


The Great Boer War, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, New York, 1902.


Goodbye Dolly Gray: The Story Of The Boer War, Rayne Kruger, Pan, London, 1959.


The Story Of South Africa In The Transvaal War, J. Clark Ridpath, Guelph, Canada, 1900.


The Last Post, Mildred G. Dooner, Cape Town, 1903.


"Boer War Operations In South Africa: Extracts from reports by military
attaché Capt. S.L. Slocum", United States Army, Washington, DC, 1902.

 

Paul Kruger: His Life And Times, J. Fisher, New York, 1974.


President Kruger, Johannes Meintjes, Johannesburg, 1974.


The Growth Of Opposition To Kruger, 1890-1895, C.T. Gordon, OUP, Cape Town, 1970.


"Twee Susters" (Three Sisters), Chris Euvrard, Kutra & Kie.,Stellenbosch, 1915.


History, Homes, and Customs of the Voortrekkers, Sophia duPreeze, Pretoria, 1974.


White Tribe Dreaming, Marq De Villiers, Penguin, NY, 1989.


The Puritans In Africa: A Story Of Afrikanerdom, W.A. deKlerk, Rex Collings, London, 1975.


With The Boer Forces, H.C. Hillegas, Methuen, London, 1901.


Commando Courageous: A Boer's Diary, R.W. Schikkerling, Keartland, Johannesburg, 1964.


Commando, Deneys Reitz, Faber & Faber, London, 1929.


"Necessity of punitive action against Afrikaners who collaborate with
the British," Circular From Commandant-General Louis P Botha, 6 Oct,1900


To The Bitter End, Emanoel Lee, Viking, New York, 1985.


Three Years' War, Christiaan De Wet, Scribners, NY, 1902.
Diary of A National Scout, PJ. Du Toit, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, 1974.


The British Case Against The Boer Republics, Imperial South African Association, London, 1900.


Farewell the Trumpets, James Morris, Faber, London, 1978.


Armed & Dangerous: A century of Anglo-Boer War stories, intro. C.N. van der Merne, Ball, Cape Town, 1999.
Randlords, Paul Emden, London,1935.


The Von Veltheim File, Valery Rosenberg, H&R, Cape Town, 1997.

 

The Fight For The Flag In South Africa by Edgar Sanderson pub Biggs, 1900.

 

History of the war from the Boer ultimatum to the advance of Lord Roberts; 100 illustrations and maps by Carlton Woodville.

 

Anglo-Boer War by Darrell Hall and edited by Frans johan Pretorius and Gilbert Torlage.

 

Thank God We Kept The Flag Flying" by Kenneth Griffith. IBSN number is 0-670-69756-7

 

The War Correspondents, The Boer War, Raymond Sibbald, 1993

My Reminiscences Of The Anglo-Boer War, General Ben Viljoen, 1902

 

 

 

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