Boer War

There were two Boer wars, one from December 16,1880-March 23,1881 and the second from October 11, 1899-May 311902 both between the British and the settlers of Dutch, French and German origin (called Boers, Afrikaners or Voortrekkers) in South Africa that put an end to the two independent republics that they had founded.

References

• Arthur Conan Doyle: The Great Boer War. London: Smith, Elder, 1900
• Byron Farwell: The Great Anglo-Boer War. New York: Harper and Row, 1976  ISBN 0-06-011204-2 (published in the UK as The Great Boer War. London: Allen Lane, 1977 ISBN 0-7139-0820-3)
• April A. Gordon and Donald L. Gordon (eds.): Understanding contemporary Africa. 3rd ed. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner, 2001  ISBN 1-55587-850-4
• David Harrison: The white tribe of Africa: South Africa in perspective. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1981   ISBN 0-520-04690-0
• Denis Judd and Keith Surridge. The Boer War. London: John Murray, 2003, ISBN 0719561698.
• Thomas Pakenham: The Boer War. New York: Random House, 1979  ISBN 0-394-42742-4
• Sol T. Plaatje: Mafeking diary: a black man's view of a white man's war. Cambridge: Meridor Books; Athens: Ohio University Press, 1990.   ISBN 0-852550-64-2 (Meridor) ISBN 0-8214-0944-1 (Ohio UP). Originally published as The Boer War diary of Sol T. Plaatje; an African at Mafeking (Johannesburg: Macmillan, 1973 ISBN 0-8695-4002-5)