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Britain's Gulag
- The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya
- By: Caroline Elkins
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 17 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Only a few years after Britain defeated fascism came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya - a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the return of their land and freedom. The draconian response of Britain's colonial government was to detain nearly the entire Kikuyu population of 1.5 million and to portray them as sub-human savages. Detainees in their thousands - possibly a hundred thousand or more - died from exhaustion, disease, starvation and systemic physical brutality. For decades these events remained untold.
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Essiential reading.
- By Moneenroe on 19-12-25
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Britain's Gulag
- The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 17 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 27-06-24
- Language: English
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Cruelty of Fate: The Fight for Khambula
- The Anglo-Zulu War, Book 4
- By: James Mace
- Narrated by: Jonathan Waters
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance16
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In late January 1879, following news of the terrible disaster to befall British forces at Isandlwana, Colonel Henry Evelyn Wood, commanding officer of the northern No. 4 Column, withdraws his forces to Khambula, near the Natal and Transvaal borders. Adding to their woes, the southern No. 1 Column finds itself trapped under siege at the abandoned mission station of Eshowe. The general officer commanding, Lord Chelmsford, orders Wood to continue harassing the Zulus, keeping the pressure off their central and southern forces while he rallies reinforcements to relieve Eshowe.
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the in depth description
- By JAMES GOLD on 17-11-24
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Cruelty of Fate: The Fight for Khambula
- The Anglo-Zulu War, Book 4
- Narrated by: Jonathan Waters
- Series: The Anglo-Zulu War, Book 4
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 04-12-19
- Language: English
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We Dared to Win
- The SAS in Rhodesia
- By: Hannes Wessels, Andre Scheepers - with
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall92
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Performance85
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Andre Scheepers grew up on a farm in Rhodesia, learning about the bush from his African childhood friends, before joining the army. A quiet, introspective thinker, Andre started out as a trooper in the SAS before being commissioned into the Rhodesian Light Infantry Commandos, where he was engaged in fireforce combat operations. He then rejoined the SAS. Andre writes vividly about his experiences, his emotions, and his state of mind during the war, and reflects candidly on what he learned and how war has shaped his life since.
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A Remarkable Book
- By Iolis on 15-04-20
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We Dared to Win
- The SAS in Rhodesia
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 17-03-20
- Language: English
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It's a Continent
- Unravelling Africa's History One Country at a Time
- By: Astrid Madimba, Chinny Ukata
- Narrated by: Astrid Madimba, Chinny Ukata
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance22
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Why is Africa still perceived as a country when there are around 2,000 languages spoken on the continent alone? It's a Continent aims to counter the misconception that Africa is a country by breaking down this vast, beautiful and complex continent into regions and countries. Each of the 54 African countries has a unique history and culture and this audiobook highlights the key historical moments that have shaped each nation and contributed to its global position, as well as within the African continent.
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knowledge
- By Kimberley Pearce on 04-02-24
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It's a Continent
- Unravelling Africa's History One Country at a Time
- Narrated by: Astrid Madimba, Chinny Ukata
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 07-07-22
- Language: English
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Two Weeks in November
- The astonishing untold story of the operation that toppled Mugabe
- By: Douglas Rogers
- Narrated by: Patrick Doherty
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Two Weeks in Novemberis the thrilling, surreal, unbelievable and often very funny true story of four would-be enemies - a high ranking politician, an exiled human rights lawyer, a dangerous spy and a low-key white businessman turned political fixer - who team up to help unseat one of Africa's...
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How the Crocodile replaced the Monster Mugabe.
- By Stephen Towers on 09-07-25
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Two Weeks in November
- The astonishing untold story of the operation that toppled Mugabe
- Narrated by: Patrick Doherty
- Length: 8 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 13-07-23
- Language: English
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A Short History of South Africa
- By: Gail Nattrass
- Narrated by: Sarah Jane Woodward
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance21
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A Short History of South Africa is a brief, general account of the history of this most complicated and fascinating country - from the first evidence of hominid existence to the wars of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries that led to the establishment of modern South Africa, the horrors of Apartheid and the optimism following its collapse, as well as the prospects and challenges for the future. This highly listenable account is the culmination of a lifetime of researching and teaching the broad spectrum of South African history.
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Fatally Flawed
- By Mr S Benton on 11-03-20
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A Short History of South Africa
- Narrated by: Sarah Jane Woodward
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 16-07-19
- Language: English
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Rorke's Drift
- By: Adrian Greaves
- Narrated by: Paul Herzberg
- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall62
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Performance53
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Story53
On 22nd January 1879 a force of 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed and destroyed the British invading force at Isandlwana, killing and ritually disemboweling more than 1,200 troops. That afternoon, the same Zulu force turned their attention on a small outpost at Rorke's Drift. The battle that ensued, one of the British Army's great epics, has since entered into legend. Throughout the night 85 men held off six full-scale Zulu attacks at the cost of only 27 casualties, forcing the Zulu army to withdraw.
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Good narration of a great story
- By Rob on 07-06-23
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Rorke's Drift
- Narrated by: Paul Herzberg
- Length: 15 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 10-12-20
- Language: English
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Born in Blackness
- Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
- By: Howard W. French
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance29
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Born in Blackness vitally reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, the anchoring of democracy in the West, and the fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals all grew out of Europe's dehumanizing engagement with the "dark" continent. In fact, French reveals, the first impetus for the Age of Discovery was not—as we are so often told, even today—Europe's yearning for ties with Asia, but rather its centuries-old desire to forge a trade in gold with legendarily rich Black societies in the heart of West Africa.
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Incredible
- By Akin Wright on 01-05-23
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Born in Blackness
- Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War
- Narrated by: James Fouhey
- Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 12-04-22
- Language: English
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One Small Step
- The Sunday Times bestseller of the Incredible Story of Parkrun
- By: Paul Sinton-Hewitt
- Narrated by: Matt Whyman, Paul Sinton-Hewitt
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance22
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Read by the author, Paul Sinton-Hewitt, and his co-author, Matt Whyman. Including an audio-exclusive Q&A between Paul and Matt. This is the story of a simple idea that turned into a global movement. This is the story of parkrun, told for the very first time from the man who started it all...
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parkrun will be even better having read this
- By Anonymous on 19-01-26
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One Small Step
- The Sunday Times bestseller of the Incredible Story of Parkrun
- Narrated by: Matt Whyman, Paul Sinton-Hewitt
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 10-04-25
- Language: English
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Dictatorland
- The Men Who Stole Africa
- By: Paul Kenyon
- Narrated by: Hamilton McLeod
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall28
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Performance26
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The dictator who grew so rich on his country's cocoa crop that he built a 35-storey-high basilica in the jungles of the Ivory Coast. The austere, incorruptible leader who has shut Eritrea off from the world in a permanent state of war and conscripted every adult into the armed forces. In Equatorial Guinea, the paranoid despot who thought Hitler was the saviour of Africa and waged a relentless campaign of terror against his own people.
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Weird pronunciations
- By J. Hunter on 26-03-26
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Dictatorland
- The Men Who Stole Africa
- Narrated by: Hamilton McLeod
- Length: 19 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 06-07-23
- Language: English
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Captives and Companions
- A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World
- By: Justin Marozzi
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 19 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. **SHORTLISTED FOR 2025 THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION** A startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the present Slavery in the Islamic world has a long, diverse and controversial history. Captives and Companions is a...
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Captives and Companions
- A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 19 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 04-12-25
- Language: English
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
- An African Childhood
- By: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall121
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Performance110
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Story109
In 1972, when Alexandra Fuller was two years old, her parents finally abandoned their English life and returned to what was then Southern Rhodesia and to the beginning of a civil war. By the time she was eight, the war was in full swing. Her parents veered from being determined farmers to being blind drunk, whilst Alexandra and her sister, the only survivors of five children, alternately take up target practice and sing Rod Stewart songs from sun bleached rocks.
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Post-colonial memories of a British girl
- By Amazon Kunde on 14-02-18
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
- An African Childhood
- Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 25-12-03
- Language: English
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Operation Barras
- By: William Fowler
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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In September 2000, 11 British soldiers were captured by a notorious militia gang in Sierra Leone. The so-called 'West Side Boys' had subjected their part of the country to a long reign of terror, murdering, kidnapping and mutilating anyone who stood in their way. Now British soldiers were at their mercy. Surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered, any resistance would have seen them all killed, yet their hopes of a quick exchange soon faded.
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like a boring history and politics class at school
- By ceecrb1 on 15-06-24
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Operation Barras
- Narrated by: Matt Addis
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 08-09-22
- Language: English
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The Lumumba Plot
- The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
- By: Stuart A. Reid
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance14
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The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Economist...
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How utterly biased this book is
- By Amazon Customer on 11-03-26
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The Lumumba Plot
- The Secret History of the CIA and a Cold War Assassination
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 17-10-23
- Language: English
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Brutal Valour: The Tragedy of Isandlwana
- The Anglo-Zulu War, Book 1
- By: James Mace
- Narrated by: Jonathan Waters
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall104
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Performance92
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It is December 1878, and war looms on the horizon in South Africa. British high commissioner Sir Henry Bartle-Frere seeks to dismantle the powerful neighboring kingdom of the Zulus and uses an incursion along the disputed border as his justification for war. He issues an impossible ultimatum to the Zulu king, Cetshwayo, demanding he disband his armies and pay massive reparations. With a heavy heart, the king prepares his nation for war against their former allies.
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Well worth reading
- By Amazon Customer on 15-02-18
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Brutal Valour: The Tragedy of Isandlwana
- The Anglo-Zulu War, Book 1
- Narrated by: Jonathan Waters
- Series: The Anglo-Zulu War, Book 1
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 06-03-17
- Language: English
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Cobalt Red
- How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
- By: Siddharth Kara
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall162
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Performance147
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Cobalt Red is the searing first-ever exposé of the immense toll taken on the people and environment of the Democratic Republic of the Congo by cobalt mining, as told through the testimonies of the Congolese people themselves. Activist and researcher Siddharth Kara has traveled deep into cobalt territory to document the testimonies of the people living, working, and dying for cobalt.
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Holds a mirror up to us all.
- By Anonymous on 13-02-23
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Cobalt Red
- How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 31-01-23
- Language: English
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Kaffir Boy
- The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
- By: Mark Mathabane
- Narrated by: Mark Mathabane
- Length: 18 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall62
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Performance51
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Story51
Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa’s most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage. Like every other child born in the hopelessness of apartheid, he learned to measure his life in days, not years. Yet Mark Mathabane, armed only with the courage of his family and a hard-won education, raised himself up from the squalor and humiliation to win a scholarship to an American university.
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One of the most inspirational books ever, I was gripped to the very end,
- By Trish on 16-06-15
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Kaffir Boy
- The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
- Narrated by: Mark Mathabane
- Length: 18 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 06-07-12
- Language: English
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When We Ruled
- 'A history the world needs' Bettany Hughes
- By: Paula Akpan
- Narrated by: Lowena Waries
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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'A searing, nourishing journey through a history the world needs' - Bettany Hughes, bestselling author of The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World 'This sweeping history restores women to the centre of African political power...both accessible and rigorous' The Observer 'Please read it!' -...
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Bad reading
- By A’s A on 19-10-25
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When We Ruled
- 'A history the world needs' Bettany Hughes
- Narrated by: Lowena Waries
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 26-05-25
- Language: English
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The Boer War
- By: Martin Bossenbroek, Yvette Rosenberg - Translator
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 19 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall77
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Performance67
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In The Boer War, winner of the Netherland's 2013 Libris History Prize and shortlisted for the 2013 AKO Literature Prize, the author brings a completely new perspective to this chapter of South African history, critically examining the involvement of the Netherlands in the war. Furthermore, unlike other accounts, Martin Bossenbroek explores the war primarily through the experiences of three men uniquely active during the bloody conflict.
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The Boer War,
- By R N BLAIR on 30-06-18
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The Boer War
- Narrated by: James Langton
- Length: 19 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 09-01-18
- Language: English
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