Compiled under the direction of the War Office, this official history of the Second Boer War represents the British Army’s own systematic account of the conflict with the Boer republics of the Transvaal and Orange Free State. Volume 1 covers the opening campaigns, early British reverses, and the strategic situation as of the first months of the war.
As an official military history, the work draws on operational orders, dispatches, and staff reports unavailable to civilian historians of the time. It remains an essential primary source for the study of British military operations in South Africa and the wider history of late-Victorian imperial warfare. Download the free EPUB for this authoritative account.