Springboks on the Somme South Africa in the First World War, 1914-1918

Name: Springboks on the Somme South Africa in the First World War, 1914-1918
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ISBN: 9780143025351

ISBN-10: 014302535X

ISBN-13: 9780143025351

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Authors: Bill Nasson

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The Great War of 1914-18 was a conflict which engulfed the whole world, directly or indirectly. An imperialist world war tugged the new Union of South Africa and its people into a series of separate but connected conflicts - from the domestic Afrikaner Rebellion on the highveld, through the sands of German South West Africa, the steamy bush of German East Africa, and on to the mud and blood of France and Flanders. This book is the first general study of the complex ways in which South Africans experienced the impact of the First World War, and responded to its demands, burdens and opportunities. Told with his customary narrative energy and style, Bill Nasson's new history is a lively…

Book details

List price: $52.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/13/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Prologue



Opening shots, 1914-1915: Sliding into war and the enemy within



Responses to the coming of war



The bearded peril: The Afrikaner Rebellion 1914-1915



Getting stuck in: Expeditions, aspirations, minding at home



Chasing in the sand: German South West Africa (Namibia), 1914-1915



Fords of the flies: German East Africa (Tanzania), 1915-1918



Springboks across the sea: Delville Wood, Passchendaele and Petering Out, 1915-1918



Second-string service: some fighting but mainly labouring



Dealing with Gold and other domestic matters



Shadows and Memory



Joe Samuels, oral history of an expeditionary infantryman



John Buchan and the creation of colonial valour



Commemoration and Remembrance


Epilogue


Note on sources and some further reading



The Springbok Wipers Times


Index