Lessons of the War: Being Comments from Week to Week to the Relief of Ladysmith
by Spenser Wilkinson
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Contents
- Preface
- 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