African wars, Peers, Chris

Автор: Peers, Chris
Название:  African wars
Перевод названия: Крис Пирс: Африканские войны
ISBN: 9781848841215
Издательство: Pen & sword books ltd
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ISBN-10: 1848841213
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 240
Вес: 0.58 кг.
Дата издания: 21.10.2010
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 20 - 30 illustrations
Размер: 234 x 156 x 26
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Warriors and soldiers of the colonial campaigns
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: In The African Wars, Chris Peers provides a graphic account of several of the key campaigns fought between European powers and the native peoples of tropical and subtropical Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His pioneering and authoritative study describes in vivid detail the organization and training of African warriors, their weapons, their fighting methods and traditions, and their tactics.

He concentrates on the campaigns mounted by the most successful African armies as they struggled to defend themselves against the European scramble for Africa. Resistance was inconsistent, but some warlike peoples fought long and hard - the Zulu victory over the British at is the best known but by no means the only occasion when the Africans humiliated the colonial invaders.