The Boer War

Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Maps
Preface

Introduction: An Irrepressible Conflict?

PART I: THE BACKGROUND TO THE WAR
British Rule, Confrontation and Compromise 1815-1886
The Descent to War 1886-1899

PART II: THE COMBATANTS
3. The British Army
4. Rallying the Empire
5. The Boers
PART III: THE CAMPAIGNS 1899-1902
6. The Opening Battles, October 1899
7. The Disasters of Black Week, December 1899: The Battles of Stormberg, Magersfontein and Colenso, and their less disastrous prelude
8. Humiliation, January and February 1900: The Battles of Spion Kop and Vaal Krantz
9. 'I thank God we have kept the flag flying': The Besieged Towns of Ladysmith, Kimberley and Mafeking
10. The Turn of the Tide, February 1900: The Relief of Kimberley, the Battle of Paardeberg, the Relief of Ladysmith
11. Marching to Pretoria (and Johannesburg): The British Advance through the Boer Republics, the Relief of Mafeking, the Start of the Guerrilla War
12. Methods of Barbarism? December 1900 to October 1901: The Guerrilla War, Farm Burning, the Concentration Camps
13. Seeking Peace, March 1900-June 1901
14. The Final Battles, May 1901-May 1902

PART IV: THE AMBIVALENCES OF WAR
15. Big Business, Capitalism and War
16. The Last of the Gentlemen's Wars?
17. The Pro-Boers
18. Foreigners and the War
19. The Press and the War
20. The Literature of the War

PART V: THE PEACE
21. The Talks Begin
22. Taking Stock
Peace at Last