Lessons of the War: Being Comments from Week to Week to the Relief of Ladysmith. Spenser Wilkinson

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066195762

      Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       LESSONS OF THE WAR

       Being Comments from Week to Week

       To the Relief of Ladysmith

       THE EVE OF WAR

       THE MILITARY ISSUES

       A WEEK'S CAMPAIGN

       PLAYING WITH FIRE

       HOW WEAK POLICY LEADS TO BAD STRATEGY

       TWO VIEWS OR TRUE VIEWS?

       BULLER'S PROBLEM

       FIGHTING AGAINST ODDS

       THE DELAY OF REINFORCEMENTS

       THE NATION'S PROBLEM

       MORE AWAKENING

       THE NATION'S BUSINESS

       WANTED, THE MAN

       THE STRATEGY OF THE WAR

       THE DECISIVE BATTLE

       SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS

       THE ELEVENTH HOUR

       TRY, TRY, TRY AGAIN

       A COMMANDER

       CRONJE'S SEDAN

       THE BOER DEFEATS

       THE COLLAPSE OF THE BOER POWER