title: Kruger, Kommandos and Kak: Debunking the Myths of the Boer War
author:  Chris Ash 
description: <span style="">This is revisionist history at its absolute best. With meticulous scholarship but also an attractively waspish turn of phrase, Chris Ash turns everything we thought we knew about the Boer War on its head. After reading this, you wont think of that conflict in the same way again.</span> (Andrew Roberts, historian and bestselling author of THE STORM OF WAR: A NEW HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR)<br /><br /><span style="">Author Chris Ash is an effective chronicler of the war and uses original research and source material to bring new light to his subject...well researched, ground breaking piece of scholarship..."</span> (Douglas Mason, Member of RCMI and Johannesburg based journalist and analyst)<br /><br /><span style="">"... for the wargamer there are also several excellent descriptions of smaller actions that could be excellent for skirmishing."</span> (Chris Jarvis <i>Miniature Wargames with Battlegames</i>)
zlib_text: # BOER WARS
  
  ###  _A History From Beginning to End_
  
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  Copyright © 2017
  
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  Table of Contents
  
  [The Creation of the Boer](text00003.html#sigil_toc_id_1)
  
  [Growing Tensions](text00004.html#sigil_toc_id_2)
  
  [The First War Commences](text00005.html#sigil_toc_id_3)
  
  [Colley Steps In](text00006.html#sigil_toc_id_4)
  
  [The End of the First War](text00007.html#sigil_toc_id_5)
  
  [The Jameson Raid](text00008.html#sigil_toc_id_6)
  
  [Stage One: The Boer Offensive](text00009.html#sigil_toc_id_7)
  
  [Stage Two: The Empire Strikes Back](text00010.html#sigil_toc_id_8)
  
  [Stage Three: Scorched Earth](text00011.html#sigil_toc_id_9)
  
  [The End of the Boer](text00012.html#sigil_toc_id_10)
  
    
  
  #  [>>BONUSES<<](text00014.html)  
  
  
  #  Introduction
  
  Because the victors write the history books, we’ve called the altercation in
  South Africa quite simply “The Boer War” for generations – a British
  designation. But ask someone else and the answer might be different. To the
  Boers themselves, it w