Remembering the South African War: Britain and the Memory of the Anglo-Boer War, from 1899 to the Present

by Peter Donaldson

The experience of the South African War sharpened the desire to commemorate for a number of reasons. An increasingly literate public, a burgeoning populist press, an army reinforced by waves of volunteers and, to contemporaries at least, a shockingly high death toll embedded the war firmly in the national consciousness. In addition, with the fallen buried far from home those left behind required other forms of commemoration. For these reasons, the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846319684
• ISBN13: 9781846319686
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 193 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"