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1975 Leo Cooper hardcover, Eversley Belfield (Defy and Endure). Reissued at a time when South Africa faces another turning point in its history, this account of the Boer War, first published in 1975, sets out and explains the complex workings and issues of a war that was for Britain in many ways the prelude to World War I. The Boer conflict demonstrated one of the great paradoxes of military the job of an army is to keep the peace, but when it succeeds in this aim for too long a time, it becomes an outdated and ineffective machine. - Amazon