South Africa And The War A Lecture Delivered At Stellenbosch 25 September 1914
DOWNLOAD
Download South Africa And The War A Lecture Delivered At Stellenbosch 25 September 1914 PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get South Africa And The War A Lecture Delivered At Stellenbosch 25 September 1914 book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
South Africa And The War
DOWNLOAD
Author : John Xavier Merriman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1914
South Africa And The War written by John Xavier Merriman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1914 with World War, 1914-1918 categories.
South Africa And The War A Lecture Delivered At Stellenbosch 25 September 1914 Classic Reprint
DOWNLOAD
Author : John Xavier Merriman
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-02-06
South Africa And The War A Lecture Delivered At Stellenbosch 25 September 1914 Classic Reprint written by John Xavier Merriman and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-06 with History categories.
Excerpt from South Africa and the War: A Lecture Delivered at Stellenbosch, 25 September, 1914 To turn to the other side, Russia is, by common consent, regarded as the head and patron of the Slav nationality and its various off-shoots. Its huge population, some one hundred and thirty millions, presses along its western frontier 011 the Teutonic races of middle Europe. With an eye to the dismemberment of the Turkish Empire, Russia has agreed - not without searchings of heart - to the foundation of the Kingdoms of Bulgaria and Servia which, while removed from direct Russian control, from national and religious reasons always look up to the leadership of that power. In one respect, Russia is different from Germany. She is fortunate in possessing in Asia a boundless territory well-suited for European occupation and she therefore lacks the pretext for territorial expansion. France, with her huge territory in North Africa, and England with her vast commercial and financial interests were bound for every reason to maintain the peace of Europe. True, the former country had a traditional inheritance in the cry of revenge for the loss of the two provinces taken by the Germans as a prize of war in 1870. But the wound, though it rankled deep, seemed to be slowly healing over, and her military preparations were rather the outcome of the fear of German aggression than the desire of any warlike effort on her own part. 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.
The Library Catalogs Of The Hoover Institution On War Revolution And Peace Stanford University
DOWNLOAD
Author : Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Library Catalogs Of The Hoover Institution On War Revolution And Peace Stanford University written by Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with categories.
A South African Bibliography To The Year 1925
DOWNLOAD
Author : Sidney Mendelssohn
language : en
Publisher: London : Mansell
Release Date : 1979
A South African Bibliography To The Year 1925 written by Sidney Mendelssohn and has been published by London : Mansell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Africa, Southern categories.
General Jan Smuts And His First World War In Africa 1914 1917
DOWNLOAD
Author : David Brock Katz
language : en
Publisher: Casemate
Release Date : 2022-05-19
General Jan Smuts And His First World War In Africa 1914 1917 written by David Brock Katz and has been published by Casemate this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A new assessment of Jan Smuts’s military leadership through examination of his World War I campaigning, demonstrating that he was a gifted general, conversant with the craft of maneuver warfare, and a command style steeped in the experiences of his time as a Boer general. World War I ushered in a renewed scramble for Africa. At its helm, Jan Smuts grabbed the opportunity to realize his ambition of a Greater South Africa. He set his sights upon the vast German colonies of South-West Africa and East Africa – the demise of which would end the Kaiser’s grandiose schemes for Mittelafrika. As part of his strategy to shift South Africa’s borders inexorably northward, Smuts even cast an eye toward Portuguese and Belgian African possessions. Smuts, his abilities as a general much denigrated by both his contemporary and then later modern historians, was no armchair soldier. This cabinet minister and statesman donned a uniform and led his men into battle. He learned his soldiery craft under General Koos De la Rey's tutelage, and another soldier-statesman, General Louis Botha during the South African War 1899–1902. He emerged from that war, immersed in the Boer maneuver doctrine he devastatingly waged in the guerrilla phase of that conflict. His daring and epic invasion of the Cape at the head of his commando remains legendary. The first phase of the German South West African campaign and the Afrikaner Rebellion in 1914 placed his abilities as a sound strategic thinker and a bold operational planner on display. Champing at the bit, he finally had the opportunity to command the Southern Forces in the second phase of the German South West African campaign. Placed in command of the Allied forces in East Africa in 1916, he led a mixed bag of South Africans and Imperial troops against the legendary Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and his Shutztruppe. Using his penchant for Boer maneuver warfare together with mounted infantry led and manned by Boer Republican veterans, he proceeded to free the vast German territory from Lettow-Vorbeck’s grip. Often leading from the front, his operational concepts were an enigma to the British under his command, remaining so to modern-day historians. Although unable to bring the elusive and wily Lettow-Vorbeck to a final decisive battle, Smuts conquered most of the territory by the end of his tenure in February 1917. General Jan Smuts and His First World War in Africa makes use of multiple archival sources and the official accounts of all the participants to provide a long-overdue reassessment of Smuts’s generalship and his role in furthering the strategic aims of South Africa and the British Empire in Africa during World War I.
Selections From The Smuts Papers November 1918 August 1919
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jan Christiaan Smuts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Selections From The Smuts Papers November 1918 August 1919 written by Jan Christiaan Smuts and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Soldiers categories.
Collective Violence And The Agrarian Origins Of South African Apartheid 1900 1948
DOWNLOAD
Author : John Higginson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-11-24
Collective Violence And The Agrarian Origins Of South African Apartheid 1900 1948 written by John Higginson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-24 with History categories.
This book examines the dark odyssey of official and private collective violence against the rural African population and Africans in general during the two generations before apartheid became the primary justification for the existence of the South African state. John Higginson discusses how Africans fought back against the entire spectrum of violence ranged against them, demonstrating just how contingent apartheid was on the struggle to hijack the future of the African majority.
A Military History Of South Africa
DOWNLOAD
Author : Timothy J. Stapleton
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2010-04-09
A Military History Of South Africa written by Timothy J. Stapleton and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-09 with History categories.
This work offers the first one-volume comprehensive military history of modern South Africa. A Military History of South Africa: From the Dutch-Khoi Wars to the End of Apartheid represents the first comprehensive military history of South Africa from the beginning of European colonization in the Cape during the 1650s to the current postapartheid republic. With particular emphasis on the last 200 years, this balanced analysis stresses the historical importance of warfare and military structures in the shaping of modern South African society. Important themes include military adaptation during the process of colonial conquest and African resistance, the growth of South Africa as a regional military power from the early 20th century, and South African involvement in conflicts of the decolonization era. Organized chronologically, each chapter reviews the major conflicts, policies, and military issues of a specific period in South African history. Coverage includes the wars of colonial conquest (1830-69), the diamond wars (1869-81), the gold wars (1886-1910), World Wars I and II (1910-45), and the apartheid wars (1948-94).
South Africa Greece Rome
DOWNLOAD
Author : Grant Parker
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-08-31
South Africa Greece Rome written by Grant Parker and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-31 with Art categories.
This book explores how since colonial times South Africa has created its own vernacular classicism, both in creative media and everyday life.
The Scientific Imagination In South Africa
DOWNLOAD
Author : William Beinart
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-05-20
The Scientific Imagination In South Africa written by William Beinart and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-20 with History categories.
An innovative three hundred year exploration of the social and political contexts of science and the scientific imagination in South Africa.