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The Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) is one of the most intriguing conflicts of modern history. It has been labeled many things: the first media war, a precursor of the First and Second World Wars, the originator of apartheid. The difference in status and resources between the superpower Great Britain and two insignificant Boer republics in southern Africa was enormous. But, against all expectation, it took the British every effort and a huge sum of money to win the war, not least by unleashing a campaign of systematic terror against the civilian population.
In The Boer War, winner of the Netherland's 2013 Libris History Prize and shortlisted for the 2013 AKO Literature Prize, the author brings a completely new perspective to this chapter of South African history, critically examining the involvement of the Netherlands in the war. Furthermore, unlike other accounts, Martin Bossenbroek explores the war primarily through the experiences of three men uniquely active during the bloody conflict. They are Willem Leyds, the Dutch lawyer who was to become South African Republic state secretary and eventual European envoy; Winston Churchill, then a British war reporter; and Deneys Reitz, a young Boer commando. The vivid and engaging experiences of these three men enables a more personal and nuanced story of the war to be told, and, at the same time, offers a fresh approach to a conflict that shaped the nation-state of South Africa.
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The Great Anglo-Boer War
- De: Byron Farwell
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 23 h y 24 m
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The Great Boer War (1899-1902) - more properly the Great Anglo-Boer War - was one of the last romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation against the British Empire at its peak of power and self-confidence. It was fought in the barren vastness of the South African veldt, and it produced in almost equal measure extraordinary feats of personal heroism, unbelievable examples of folly and stupidity, and many incidents of humor and tragedy.
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More than a war, it was a human tragedy
- De LtTora en 07-19-20
De: Byron Farwell
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The Boer War
- De: Winston Churchill
- Narrado por: Ric Jerrom
- Duración: 18 h y 13 m
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As a young, ambitious soldier, Winston Churchill managed to get himself posted to the 21st Lancers in 1899 as a war correspondent for the Morning Post - and joined them in fighting the rebel Boer settlers in South Africa. In this conflict, rebel forces in the Transvaal and Orange Free State had proclaimed their own statehood, calling it the Boer Republic.
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Lots of fun for war enthusiats.
- De David en 08-11-16
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Diamonds, Gold, and War
- The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
- De: Martin Meredith
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 19 h y 13 m
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Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced upon the world’s richest deposits of diamonds and gold, setting off a titanic struggle between the British and the Boers for control of the land. The result was the costliest, bloodiest, and most humiliating war that Britain had waged in nearly a century, and the devastation of the Boer republics.
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Engrossing story on the evolution of the modern SA
- De Cary en 05-23-14
De: Martin Meredith
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Empire of Sand
- How Britain Made the Middle East
- De: Walter Reid
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 14 h y 59 m
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Working from both primary and secondary sources, Walter Reid explores Britain's role in the creation of the modern Middle East and the rise of Zionism from the early years of the twentieth century to 1948, when Britain handed over Palestine to United Nations' control. From the decisions that Britain made has flowed much of the instability of the region and of the worldwide tensions that threaten the twenty-first century; this thought-provoking book considers how much Britain was to blame.
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Very detailed.
- De Aaron C. Jones en 02-23-24
De: Walter Reid
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How to Win an Election
- An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians
- De: Quintus Tullius Cicero, Philip Freeman - translator
- Narrado por: Doug Kaye
- Duración: 1 h y 5 m
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How to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines. In 64 BC when idealist Marcus Cicero, Rome's greatest orator, ran for consul (the highest office in the Republic), his practical brother Quintus decided he needed some no-nonsense advice on running a successful campaign.
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How to be a politician ...
- De Benedict en 07-31-13
De: Quintus Tullius Cicero, y otros
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Between Giants
- The Battle for the Baltics in World War II
- De: Prit Buttar
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 17 h y 42 m
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During World War II, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia found themselves trapped between the giants of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Over the course of the war, these states were repeatedly occupied by different forces, and local government organizations and individuals were forced to choose between supporting the occupying forces or forming partisan units to resist their occupation. Devastated during the German invasion, these states then became the site of some of the most vicious fighting during the Soviet counterattack and push towards Berlin.
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Great listgen
- De Michael Blount en 07-09-20
De: Prit Buttar
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The Arabs
- A History
- De: Eugene Rogan
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 27 h y 29 m
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In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on Arab sources and texts to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context for the first time. Tracing five centuries of Arab history, Rogan reveals that there was an age when the Arabs set the rules for the rest of the world. Today, however, the Arab world's sense of subjection to external powers carries vast consequences for both the region and Westerners who attempt to control it.
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Superb Book About the Arab World
- De Nostromo en 05-29-16
De: Eugene Rogan
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A Peace to End All Peace
- The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
- De: David Fromkin
- Narrado por: David de Vries
- Duración: 23 h y 15 m
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The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts are rooted in the region's political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed by the Allies after the First World War. Author David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics of the Middle East. Focusing on the formative years of 1914 to 1922, when all seemed possible, he delivers in this sweeping and magisterial book the definitive account of this defining time.
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Still A Great Book On The Topic
- De Nostromo en 02-03-19
De: David Fromkin
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The Dope
- The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade
- De: Benjamin T. Smith
- Narrado por: John Curless
- Duración: 17 h y 48 m
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The Mexican drug trade has inspired prejudiced narratives of a war between north and south, White and Brown; between noble cops and vicious kingpins, corrupt politicians and powerful cartels. In this first comprehensive history of the trade, historian Benjamin T. Smith tells the real story of how and why this one-peaceful industry turned violent. He uncovers its origins and explains how this illicit business essentially built modern Mexico, affecting everything from agriculture to medicine to economics - and the country’s all-important relationship with the United States.
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Stuffy British Reader Abuses the Spanish Language
- De pilot en 03-19-22
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The Fall of the Ottomans
- The Great War in the Middle East
- De: Eugene Rogan
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 17 h y 25 m
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In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region's crucial role in the conflict.
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Great Book About A Little Known Part of WWI
- De Nostromo en 06-08-15
De: Eugene Rogan
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The Battle for Spain
- The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
- De: Antony Beevor
- Narrado por: Sean Barrett
- Duración: 18 h y 48 m
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Antony Beevor has written a completely updated and revised account of one of the most bitter and hard-fought wars of the 20th century. With new material gleaned from Russian archives and numerous other sources, this brisk and accessible audiobook (Spain's number-one best seller for 12 weeks) provides a balanced and penetrating perspective, explaining the tensions that led to this terrible overture to World War II and affording new insights into the war - its causes, course, and consequences.
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Not an Accurate History Book
- De Jose en 10-16-19
De: Antony Beevor
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The Journey of Crazy Horse
- A Lakota History
- De: Joseph M. Marshall III
- Narrado por: Joseph M. Marshall III
- Duración: 10 h y 56 m
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Most of the world remembers Crazy Horse as a peerless warrior who brought the U.S. Army to its knees at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But to his fellow Lakota Indians, he was a dutiful son and humble fighting man who, with valor, spirit, respect, and unparalleled leadership, fought for his people's land, livelihood, and honor. In this fascinating biography, Joseph Marshall, himself a Lakota Indian, creates a vibrant portrait of the man, his times, and his legacy.
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- De William en 05-31-05
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Lenin
- The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
- De: Victor Sebestyen
- Narrado por: Jonathan Aris
- Duración: 20 h y 3 m
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Drawing on new research, including the diaries, memoirs, and personal letters of both Lenin and his friends, Victor Sebestyen's unique biography - the first in English in nearly two decades - is not only a political examination of one of the most important historical figures of the 20th century but a portrait of Lenin the man. Unexpectedly, Lenin was someone who loved nature, hunting, and fishing and could identify hundreds of species of plants, a despotic ruler whose closest ties and friendships were with women.
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Lenin totally took an extra piece of that cake.
- De John Gathly en 05-14-19
De: Victor Sebestyen
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Crucible of War
- The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
- De: Fred Anderson
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 29 h y 4 m
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In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War - long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution - takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both to create Britain's empire and to sow the seeds of its eventual dissolution. Beginning with a skirmish in the Pennsylvania backcountry involving an inexperienced George Washington, the Iroquois chief Tanaghrisson, and the ill-fated French emissary Jumonville, Anderson reveals a chain of events that would lead to world conflagration.
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A Detailed History
- De Daniel en 07-15-18
De: Fred Anderson
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Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney
- Slavery, Secession, and the President's War Powers
- De: James F. Simon
- Narrado por: Richard Allen
- Duración: 11 h y 26 m
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The clashes between President Abraham Lincoln and Chief Justice Roger B. Taney over slavery, secession, and Lincoln's constitutional war powers went to the heart of Lincoln's presidency. Lincoln and Taney's bitter disagreements began with Taney's Dred Scott opinion in 1857, when the chief justice declared that the Constitution did not grant the black man any rights that the white man was bound to honor.
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a rehash without much new
- De D. Littman en 11-25-06
De: James F. Simon
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The Earth Is Weeping
- The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
- De: Peter Cozzens
- Narrado por: John Pruden
- Duración: 18 h y 39 m
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With the end of the Civil War, the nation recommenced its expansion onto traditional Indian tribal lands, setting off a wide-ranging conflict that would last more than three decades. In an exploration of the wars and negotiations that destroyed tribal ways of life even as they made possible the emergence of the modern United States, Peter Cozzens gives us both sides in comprehensive and singularly intimate detail.
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Excellent detailed history of US conflict with Native Americans
- De White Thai en 06-24-17
De: Peter Cozzens
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Crimea
- De: Orlando Figes
- Narrado por: Malk Williams
- Duración: 20 h y 38 m
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The terrible conflict that dominated the mid-19th century, the Crimean War, killed at least 800,000 men and pitted Russia against a formidable coalition of Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire. It was a war for territory, provoked by fear that if the Ottoman Empire were to collapse then Russia could control a huge swathe of land from the Balkans to the Persian Gulf. But it was also a war of religion, driven by a fervent, populist and ever more ferocious belief by the Tsar and his ministers that it was Russia's task to rule all Orthodox Christians and control the Holy Land.
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Outstanding History of the Crimean War
- De Rick Sailor en 11-08-18
De: Orlando Figes
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Iron Kingdom
- The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947
- De: Christopher Clark
- Narrado por: Shaun Grindell
- Duración: 28 h y 24 m
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In the aftermath of World War II, Prussia - a centuries-old state pivotal to Europe's development - ceased to exist. In their eagerness to erase all traces of the Third Reich from the earth, the Allies believed that Prussia, the very embodiment of German militarism, had to be abolished. But as Christopher Clark reveals in this pioneering history, Prussia's legacy is far more complex.
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Let me make it easier for you.
- De alexyakkavoo en 06-03-20
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Boer War
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- Brian McGrew
- 02-06-23
Excellent
This book educates the rider about a forgotten war with huge ramifications on the Twentieth Century.
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- edward
- 05-18-23
Interest history, Way to long
As another reviewer said this book is too long. It could’ve been condensed by about 80%. There is no character development and it is rambling and confusing. I recommend starting at chapter 14 and skipping the intro. There is nothing to be gained by the first 14 chapters. Don’t worry about what you’d be missing by skipping forward. You would be missing nothing. I will say the history about Churchhill was interesting. I now know way too much about the Boer war.
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- Ricardo Fernandes
- 03-20-18
Great detail on a very little know war.
good book, great detail from multiple view points, leant a great deal of European politics of the period, would love to read more about 19th century European and Afican history after listening to this.
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- Eric Mesa
- 02-09-24
An excellent history on a relevant subject
The narrator was excellent. Accurate and well-researched writing. Highly recommend. Fifteen word minimums suck.
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- Steve Adams
- 02-26-24
Excellent overview of the Boer War
First of all, I thought the book was very well narrated. I felt that this book did a good job of explaining the players involved in the Boer War, what led up to the war and the repercussions that were felt by self Africans for generations afterwards. I would highly recommend this book.
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- Armen Kurdian
- 07-23-20
Great chronology and history
This is an excellent book going back a few decades before the Boer war and then spending about 60% of the book on the actual conflict. There’s a lot of historical figures covered in this book, so many of them don’t get a lot of development, but that’s OK. I would say my only complaint with the book, is that some of the transitions seem to be a little bit abrupt and I had to go back to see what has actually changed, or with a new topic was. But I highly recommend it.
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- Becka
- 03-13-23
Could have been condensed
The first third of the book could have been summarized. There was a lot of unnecessary information about building railroads prior to the war. I could’ve done a brief summary of some of the factors leading up to the war but I didn’t need an in-depth dive.
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- John
- 11-28-23
Unique Time in History
Parts were extremely interesting. Plus full of actual history from that time period. I found that I do not like the Boer,s nor their reason for fighting. One can see how apartheid developed from that society. Glad I read the book. Excellent narrator.
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- J. Whittle
- 01-13-19
Interwoven personal histories
This is read beautifully, by the way. The author has chosen to follow a few individuals personal accounts of the war as the main threads through the history. This has the advantage of giving a strong sense of what the war was like for ordinary soldiers and civil servants. It makes the experience more personal. If he could have secured or added more of these, perhaps one civilian in the camps, and one black warrior it would have rounded the concept out. I think it was the right path but just needed the addition of two or more diary-based accounts. The suffering of the civilians, black and white, in this war is the bulk of this tragedy, but takes up a fraction of the tale.
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- 10-23-20
Best Anglo-War book by far!
This is probably the best book I have listened/read on the Anglo-Boer War by far.
Martin Bossenbroek has combined his narrative from 4 sources, all of whom kept meticulous diaries and letters that allows the listener/reader to see the story from the eyes of 4 people: Willem Leyds, Winston Churchill, Sol Platjie and Denys Reitz.
I removed a star from the narrator, because of some of the pronunciation of words, and I needed to relisten to those pronunciations a few times to have clarity on whom or what town he was referring to. Other than that the narrator did an excellent job.
Thank you to the author for such a well put together book. I have actually read or listened to the original accounts of Churchill and Reitz, so it was refreshing to hear the perspectives of Leyds and Platjie too, and I loved how you combined them!
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