{"product_id":"9781640695801","title":"Storm over South Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStorm over South Africa \u003c\/em\u003efollows the lives and tribulations of a diverse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003egroup of characters through the 2nd Anglo-Boer War from 1899-1902 in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSouth Africa. They belonged to different levels of the opposing societies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand the story follows their actual life and death experiences in this conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe characters include the seventeen-year-old son of a Boer president;\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ea young shipbuilding dock worker and his military nurse girlfriend from\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe industrial north-east of England, and a young Canadian soldier who\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003evolunteered for Canada’s first campaign outside its borders. Involved\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etoo are such illustrious British participants as Winston Churchill, Field\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarshals Frederick Roberts and Herbert Kitchener, Generals Ian Hamilton\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand Robert Baden-Powell among others. Boer leaders involved include\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGenerals Christiaan de Wet, Louis Botha, Koos de la Rey and Jan Smuts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe reader is guided through the various twists and turns of the first\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emajor British conflict of the 20th century from its beginning through to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eits end. The naivety and excitement of combatants in the lead up to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand beginning of the Second Anglo-Boer War was contagious. It pulled\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003emany naïve young men into the maelstrom of combat. It began as\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eanother glorious Victorian war. But the successes and failures, sufferings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand disillusionment soon emerge. It is a tale of imperial arrogance and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edetermination, of stubbornness, innocence, love and loss experienced in a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erugged and alluring land far from the heart of the British Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Venture Publishing LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47042538602736,"sku":"9781640695801","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781640695801_p0.jpg?v=1763685378","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781640695801","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}