Professor Jeremy Black talks about why the British found the Boers so difficult to defeat
In this edition of Black’s History Week, Professor Jeremy Black, whose books include A Short History of War, talks to the The Critic’s deputy editor, Graham Stewart, about why the British found the Boers so difficult to defeat and whether the conflict in South Africa introduced new means of waging and combatting guerrilla warfare.
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