Byron Farwell reprinted by Wordsworth An excellent book on the topic both for giving one a view of the whys and hows of strategy and operations as well as the more personal details of individual participants. The British army has seldom seemed so incompetent while being so close to victory as it was before Bobs took over. The mixture of timidity and lack of push meant that more men died than might otherwise have been the case. Yet the Boers were hardly warrior paragons, indeed Farwell argues they were not warriors at all but hunters. Farwell covers the practical effects of the war on all sides and is as scathing of Boer farm burning as of British. Chamberlain and Milner emerge as the villains of the piece. Excellent and highly entertaining. More Old Duffer's Book Corner (book reviews) Dervish St Bartholomew's Eve The Vietnam War El Alamein 1943 The Victory That Never Was Crete: The Battle and the Resistance The Imperial War Museum Book of The Somme The Spanish Civil War Armies of The 19th Century Asia: China The Russian Civil War Julius Caesar: Man, Soldier & Tyrant The Battle for Normandy The Siege of Vienna Vimy! The Great Boer War Harold: The Last Anglo-Saxon King Pallas Armata Back to Perfidious Albion #102 Table of Contents Back to Perfidious Albion List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2001 by Charles and Teresa Vasey. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com