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This concise history of the Anglo-Boer War, a prize-winning work which was originally written in Afrikaans, is the ideal book for those who want an overview of the military fortunes of the two warring parties. Now richly provided with maps and illustrations, it is one of the most accurate short histories of this important three-year war. The author, G. D. Scholtz, was a Afrikaner historian of great stature, who saw the Anglo-Boer War as a struggle for liberation, a fight for Boer freedom and independence. His original text has been sensitively translated into English by historian Bridget Theron, who is a lecturer at the University of South Africa. It is an accessible work that may provide echoes to the American wars of independence.
Two young South African scientists, a medical specialist and a nuclear physicist, are stranded in Germany at the start of the Second World War and they have to choose between a concentration camp or cooperation with the Nazis. Both survive the war, although their German wives die during an American bombing raid on Berlin. They cannot dare to return to South Africa after the war and they stay involved with Nazi activities in Argentina—until one of them manages to destroy the Nazi dream of an atom bomb.
Min verhale uit die Anglo-Boereoorlog het lesers so aangegryp as die avonture van die Boere-James Bond, kaptein Koos Naude (1876-1956). Sy avonture, wat in 1904 vir die eerste keer onder die titel In doodsgevaar gepubliseer is, is in 1940 deur G.D. Scholtz verwerk en heruitgegee.
Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd (1958–1966) is widely regarded as the mastermind of apartheid in South Africa. This study examines how he developed the ideology of racial separation into a comprehensive system. It also looks into Verwoerd’s intellectual development and his academic career before he entered politics. Apartheid was to Verwoerd less a defense of colonialism but a policy for the future, he was an authoritarian modernizer and a true representative of the Age of Extremes.