Research Catalog

Title

The forgotten front : untold stories of the Anglo-Boer War in the Karoo / Michael de Jongh, Belinda Gordon.

Author

De Jongh, M. (Michael), 1943-

Publication

• [South Africa?] : The Watermark Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gordon, Belinda
• Kantey, Mike

Description

xiv, 264 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, facsimiles; 25 cm

Summary

"The significance of confrontations along the southern or central front during the Anglo-Boer war has inclined to be under-reported and hence strategically under-emphasised. In this chronicle the authors have not only undertaken to facilitate recollective justice to this 'forgotten front', but have done so particularly by means of the untold stories of the local people and common soldiers. The unmediated experiences of previously voiceless people during turmoil in a small Karoo community are brought sharply into focus--though projected of necessity against the reality of the animosity, ravages, and casualties of war."--back cover.

Alternative Title

Untold stories of the Anglo-Boer War in the Karoo

Subject

• South African War (1899-1902)
• 1899-1902
• South African War, 1899-1902 > Campaigns > South Africa
• Military campaigns
• Colesberg (South Africa) > History
• South Africa
• South Africa > Colesberg

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-264)

Contents

Maps & illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Preamble -- Distant thunder, rumours of rain? Portents of strife -- Confronted with conflict; Colesberg annexed -- Colesberg environs: the ebb and flow of battle -- The battle of Suffolk Hill -- 'Cannon' on Coleskop, enter De la Rey -- French departs, De la Rey makes his move -- The turn of the tide: The Khakis in Colesberg -- Trials and tribulations: Colesberg under Roberts -- Commandos around Colesberg: Kitchener's ruthless response -- The amaBhulu versus the amaNgesi: but not a 'white man's war' (and certainly not 'a gentleman's war') -- Another year beginning and the beginning of the end -- Conclusion -- Addenda -- Bibliography.

Call Number

ReCAP 19-21511

ISBN

• 9780620786997
• 062078699X

OCLC

1088411995

Author

De Jongh, M. (Michael), 1943- author.

Title

The forgotten front : untold stories of the Anglo-Boer War in the Karoo / Michael de Jongh, Belinda Gordon.

Publisher

[South Africa?] : The Watermark Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 260-264)

Chronological Term

1899-1902

Added Author

Gordon, Belinda, author.

Kantey, Mike, editor.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 19-21511