Book explores richly-layered history of boer war
Author Nigel Robson has written a book detailing the affect of the boer war on New Zealand. Our First Foreign War: The impact of the South African War 1899-1902 on New Zealand Nigel Robson Reviewed by Alister Browne If you like your history richly-layered then this is just the title for you, with the added bonus that it covers a part of the New Zealand story not much explored. For the Boer War, as it used to be called, came after the New Zealand Wars and not long before the Great War, both of which cast long and deep shadows over the period.
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