Mafeking Memories
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Mafeking Memories
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Author : Frederick Saunders
language : en
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 1996
Mafeking Memories written by Frederick Saunders and has been published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
Saunders gives us a vivid and unique soldier's-eye view of the siege, the daily life, the hunger, the regular bombardment from long-range Boer guns, the forays against the Boers, and the antics of Baden-Powell, who tried to keep up the morale of the garrison. Saunders's descriptions of the countryside are graphic too, revealing an artist's sensitivity. His account nicely supplements others written by journalists and by prominent officials at Mafeking. The editor, who obtained the memoir from the Saunders family, provides an introduction that places the siege in its historical context.
South African Memories Social Warlike Sporting From Diaries Written At The Time
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Author : Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 1909-01-01
South African Memories Social Warlike Sporting From Diaries Written At The Time written by Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1909-01-01 with Fiction categories.
Battle Story Mafeking 1899 1900
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Author : Edmund Yorke
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2014-09-01
Battle Story Mafeking 1899 1900 written by Edmund Yorke and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-01 with History categories.
The Siege of Mafeking remains one of the most renowned actions of the Second Boer War, with the British Army defeating a Boer force of up to 8,000 men with barely 1,500 troops. In a siege that lasted 217 days, Robert Baden-Powell and his troops withheld attack from the Boers against all the odds and Mafeking was finally relieved on 17 May 1900. It caused much public excitement in Victorian Britain, with Baden-Powell emerging as a national hero. If you want to understand what happened and why – read Battle Story. One of the most famous, if controversial, battles of the Second Boer War – memorialised across South Africa, Canada and the United Kingdom The Siege of Mafeking was instrumental in turning Robert Baden-Powell (later founder of the Scouts) into a national hero Includes significant contribution from South African, Canadian and Australian troops.
South African Memories
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Author : Sarah Wilson
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2018-04-06
South African Memories written by Sarah Wilson and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-06 with Fiction categories.
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South African Memories Social Warlike And Sporting From Diaries Written At The Time
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Author : Lady Sarah Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
South African Memories Social Warlike And Sporting From Diaries Written At The Time written by Lady Sarah Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with categories.
Letters From Mafeking
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Author : Edward Spiers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-01-30
Letters From Mafeking written by Edward Spiers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-30 with History categories.
Mafeking was the longest and the most controversial of the three sieges that began the South African War in 1899. Lasting 217 days, the Siege of Mafeking brought a highly charismatic leader to public attention and involved some controversial practices.While of little military significance, the relief of Mafeking produced unprecedented celebrations across Britain and much of its empire. Sustained over several days, such rejoicings led to the creation the verb to maffick, meaning to celebrate both extravagantly and publicly. Such rejoicing reflected not only the build up of emotions during the South African War, but also how Mafeking revived memories of imperial siege histories over the previous fifty years.In this illuminating account of the siege and its aftermath, Edward M. Spiers, a leading authority on Victorian military history, provides fresh insights on the conduct of the siege and its relief. He draws new material from some 120 letters, diary extracts, interviews, and speeches by soldiers and civilians - all uncensored, unlike the press reporting from Mafeking. He rebalances arguments about the command of Baden-Powell, reviews civil-military relations within Mafeking, examines the impact, both physical and psychological, of the most intensive shelling of the war, and accounts for the successful defence and relief of a small, isolated frontier town, bereft of natural defences and effective artillery.
South African Memories
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Author : Lady Sarah Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2015-07-15
South African Memories written by Lady Sarah Wilson and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-15 with History categories.
Excerpt from South African Memories: Social, Warlike Sporting From Diaries Written at the Time Everything of interest that has happened to me in life chances to have been in connection with South Africa. In that land, where some of my happiest days have been spent, I have also experienced long periods of intense excitement and anxiety; there I have made acquaintance with all the charm of the veldt, in the vast country north of the great Zambesi River, hearing the roar of the lions at night, and following their "spoor" by day; and last, but not least, I have there made some very good friends. Only a few years ago, when peacefully spending a few weeks at Assouan in Egypt, I was nearly drowned by the capsizing of a boat in the Nile; again the spirit of the vast continent (on this occasion far away to the north) seemed to watch over me. For all these reasons I venture to claim the indulgence of the public and the kindness of my friends, for these recollections of days in South Africa, in which shade and sunshine have been strangely mingled, and which to me have never been dull. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Washed With Sun
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Author : Jeremy Foster
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2014-08-15
Washed With Sun written by Jeremy Foster and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-15 with Architecture categories.
South Africa is recognized as a site of both political turmoil and natural beauty, and yet little work has been done in connecting these defining national characteristics. Washed with Sun achieves this conjunction in its multidisciplinary study of South Africa as a space at once natural and constructed. Weaving together practical, aesthetic, and ideological analyses, Jeremy Foster examines the role of landscape in forming the cultural iconographies and spatialities that shaped the imaginary geography of emerging nationhood. Looking in particular at the years following the British victory in the second Boer War, from 1902 to 1930, Foster discusses the influence of painting, writing, architecture, and photography on the construction of a shared, romanticized landscape subjectivity that was perceived as inseparable from "being South African," and thus helped forge the imagined community of white South Africa. In its innovative approach to South Africa's history, Washed with Sun breaks important new ground, combining the persuasive theory of cultural geography with the material specificity of landscape history.
Before The Knife
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Author : Carolyn Slaughter
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-09-30
Before The Knife written by Carolyn Slaughter and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Carolyn Slaughter is the author of ten critically acclaimed novels, but for the last twelve years she has been completely silent. She had become conscious that there was something hidden in her past that had always haunted her fiction but which she had never fully faced. This powerful memoir is the result of confronting the truth about her traumatic childhood. Carolyn's father was in the colonial service, but he lacked power and was ashamed of his Irish origins. In private, he was capable of acts of absolute sadism. When Carolyn was small, they lived comfortably in Swaziland having left India during the Partition. But when she turned six, things changed. Her mother gave birth to another daughter and they were posted to a remote area in the Kalahari desert. Bereft of a civilized social life, her mother plunged into a deep depression and turned completely away from Carolyn. While her older sister found friends and left for boarding school, Carolyn suffered a desperate sense of abandonment and loss and turned to the landscape of the Kalahari itself for solace. The stark fact that Carolyn was first raped by her father at the age of six is contained within the prologue and epilogue of this book. What lies in between is the story of an extraordinary childhood in Africa and a moving depiction of the complexities at the root of our relationships with mother, father, siblings. Despite its sometimes harrowing contents, it is a work of great, dangerous beauty.
Baden Powell At Mafeking
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Author : Duncan William Grinnell-Milne
language : en
Publisher: London : The Bodley Head
Release Date : 1957
Baden Powell At Mafeking written by Duncan William Grinnell-Milne and has been published by London : The Bodley Head this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1957 with Mafeking categories.