Denis Judd

The Boer War of 1899-1902 was an epic of heroism and bungling, cunning and barbarism, with an extraordinary cast of characters including Churchill, Rhodes, Conan Doyle, Smuts, Kipling, Gandhi, Kruger, and Kitchener. The war revealed the ineptitude of the British military and unexpectedly exposed the corrupt underside of imperialism in the establishment of the first concentration camps, the shooting of...