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Springboks On The Somme - South Africa in the Great War 1914 - 1918

By: Bill Nasson

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Springboks On The Somme - South Africa in the Great War 1914 - 1918

By: Bill Nasson

The Great War of 1914-18 was a conflict which engulfed the whole world, directly or indirectly. It was an imperialist world war that tugged the new Union of South Africa and its people into a series of separate but connected conflicts - from the domestic Afrikaner Rebellion on the highveld, through the sands of German South West Africa, the steamy bush of German East Africa, and on to the mud and blood of France and Flanders. This book is the first general study of the complex ways in which South Africans experienced the impact of the First World War, and responded to its demands, burdens and opportunities. Told with his customary narrative energy and ironic style, Bill Nasson's new history is a lively account not only of how South Africa fought the war, but also of the miscalculations and illusions that surrounded its involvement, and of how South African society came to imagine and remember that great and terrible conflict.

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Penguin Random House South Africa

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0143027166

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9780143027164

History Matters

Selected Writings, 1970–2016

By: Bill Nasson

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History Matters

Selected Writings, 1970–2016

By: Bill Nasson

History Matters is an eloquent selection of writings over four decades by Bill Nasson, one of South Africa’s most popular and highly respected historians. The pieces in this compendium are lively and entertaining, written with wit, humour and a finely tuned sense of irony. Chapters cover the South African War, the two world wars, cricket, District Six, schooldays and education, Hollywood and history, Mandela and other political biographies, and a great many other topics. Resembling a pudding of spicy plums, this is a perfect book for anyone interested in South Africa and its history, and in a broader appreciation of tweaking the tail of life in the past.

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Penguin Random House South Africa

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1776090284

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9781776090280

History Matters

Selected Writings, 1970–2016

By: Bill Nasson

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Selected Writings, 1970–2016

By: Bill Nasson

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Springboks On The Somme - South Africa in the Great War 1914 - 1918

By: Bill Nasson

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Abraham Esau's War

A Black South African War in the Cape, 1899-1902

By: Bill Nasson

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Abraham Esau's War

A Black South African War in the Cape, 1899-1902

By: Bill Nasson

This book describes the participation of black people in the conduct of the war, and their subsequent exclusion from the fruits of peace.

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276

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Cambridge University Press

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0521530598

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9780521530590

The White Man's World

By: Bill Schwarz

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The White Man's World

By: Bill Schwarz

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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599

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Oxford University Press

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019929691X

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9780199296910

Bill Freund

An historian’s passage to Africa

By: Bill Freund

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An historian’s passage to Africa

By: Bill Freund

The first biography of an eminent historian of South Africa Bill Freund, the late social historian and leading analyst of African history, passed away in 2020 soon after finishing his autobiography. Often described as the academy’s ‘outsider insider’, he was an eminent South African historian who published prodigiously in the areas of labour, capital and economic history. What influenced this American-educated academic to become such an astute and trusted observer of the political economy in Africa? We follow Bill’s intellectual journey from a modest Jewish home in Chicago in the 1950s to the Universities of Chicago, Yale, Ahmadu Bello University in Nigeria and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, and finally to a permanent teaching position at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa. Peppered in between the commentaries on academic life are stories of his travels, poems he wrote for loved ones, and endearing anecdotes of friendships that shaped his life. As an ‘outsider’, both in the United States and abroad, he is able to offer rich insights into the world of Africanists and their scholarship on different continents. His thoughtful and balanced observations on late- and post-apartheid South Africa are especially interesting and refreshing. This posthumously published autobiography will give deeper insight into this unusual man and the world that shaped him – and which he in turn influenced through a deep commitment to rigorous scholarship. It includes a select bibliography of Bill Freund’s many publications as well as a foreword by Robert Morrell on the making of this autobiography.

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Wits University Press

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1776146735

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9781776146734

History's Greatest Decisions

And the People Who Made Them

By: Bill Price

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History's Greatest Decisions

And the People Who Made Them

By: Bill Price

History’s Greatest Decisions identifies and profiles the many important and difficult decisions leaders have made through history which shaped the world as we know it today. One of the defining features of being human is our capacity for complex problem solving. Most of the time we deal with mundane concerns, like what to have for breakfast or which pair of shoes to wear, but occasionally people face decisions about rather weightier matters. History’s Greatest Decisions is concerned with this second category, those important and difficult decisions which only a very few people get to make and which can impact on the lives of millions of others and have the potential to change the world. From our unknown ancestors who made the first stone tools, to those people in Northern Ireland who managed to put aside their differences in order to create a better future for their children; from the most powerful man in the world deciding not to start a nuclear war, to a woman on a bus standing up for her rights refusing to move seats. History's Greatest Decisions looks at well-known and not-so-well-known examples of people who made the crucial decisions and got them right.

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259

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Chartwell Books

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0785835210

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9780785835219

Who's Looking Out for You?

By: Bill O'Reilly

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Who's Looking Out for You?

By: Bill O'Reilly

Makes charges about how politicians, the clergy, and families are failing to protect those in their care, presenting strong statements about personal responsibility and self-reliance in today's uncertain world.

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326

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Random House Large Print Publishing

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0375432183

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9780375432187

The Complete Bill Horan

By: Bill Horan

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The Complete Bill Horan

By: Bill Horan

A detailed study of the masterpieces created by Bill Horan in a unique, hard cover luxury book. More than 250 pages featuring over 400 colour photographs. Prologue by Shepard Paine. Introduction by Bill Horan An in-depth biography of the master modeller. Two revealing step-by-step processes about how to model figures. The complete work in high-definition photographs. Historical index. REVIEWS .,."This book is gorgeous and a wonderful insight into one of the modern masters of figure painting. From the "How-To's" through the figures themselves, you can spend hours looking at the detail and wonder of these captured moments in history. I can recommend this book with no reservations to all fans of the art form."IPMS# 33653

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Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc

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8496527352

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9788496527355

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Springboks On The Somme - South Africa in the Great War 1914 - 1918

Springboks On The Somme - South Africa in the Great War 1914 - 1918

History Matters

History Matters

History Matters

History Matters

Springboks On The Somme - South Africa in the Great War 1914 - 1918

Springboks On The Somme - South Africa in the Great War 1914 - 1918

Abraham Esau's War

Abraham Esau's War

The White Man's World

The White Man's World

Bill Freund

Bill Freund

History's Greatest Decisions

History's Greatest Decisions

Who's Looking Out for You?

Who's Looking Out for You?

The Complete Bill Horan

The Complete Bill Horan

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