Boer War

Denis Judd is Professor Emeritus of Imperial and Commonwealth History, London Metropolitan University, and Professor at New York University in London. His books include Empire; George VI (both published by I.B.Tauris); The Lion and the Tiger: The Rise and Fall of the British Raj; Balfour and the British Empire; Radical Joe - A Life of Joseph Chamberlain; The Victorian Empire; Palmerston; The Crimean War and Jawaharlal Nehru. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Keith Surridge is an independent scholar. He is the author of Managing the South African War 1899-1902.

• IllustrationsAcknowledgementsMapsPrefaceIntroduction: An Irrepressible Conflict?PART I: THE BACKGROUND TO THE WARBritish Rule, Confrontation and Compromise 1815-1886The Descent to War 1886-1899PART II: THE COMBATANTS3.The British Army4.Rallying the Empire5.The BoersPART III: THE CAMPAIGNS 1899-19026.The Opening Battles, October 18997.The Disasters of Black Week, December 1899: The Battles of Stormberg, Magersfontein and Colenso, and their less disastrous prelude8.Humiliation, January and February 1900: The Battles of Spion Kop and Vaal Krantz9.'I thank God we have kept the flag flying': The Besieged Towns of Ladysmith, Kimberley and Mafeking10.The Turn of the Tide, February 1900: The Relief of Kimberley, the Battle of Paardeberg, the Relief of Ladysmith11.Marching to Pretoria (and Johannesburg): The British Advance through the Boer Republics, the Relief of Mafeking, the Start of the Guerrilla War12.Methods of Barbarism? December 1900 to October 1901: The Guerrilla War, Farm Burning, the Concentration Camps13.Seeking Peace, March 1900-June 190114.The Final Battles, May 1901-May 1902PART IV: THE AMBIVALENCES OF WAR15.Big Business, Capitalism and War16.The Last of the Gentlemen's Wars?17.The Pro-Boers18.Foreigners and the War19.The Press and the War20.The Literature of the WarPART V: THE PEACE21.The Talks Begin22.Taking StockPeace at Last