📚 The Boer War

1899 in southern Africa: commando guerrillas, the camps, and the empire’s first modern propaganda crisis.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject boer war in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	In the Ranks of the C.I.V	Erskine Childers	1900	73
	Ian Hamilton's March	Winston S. Churchill	1900	31
	The Boer fight for freedom	Michael Davitt	1902	8
	Surgical experiences in South Africa 1899-1900	Sir George Henry Makins	1901	7
	Commando	Reitz, Deneys	1929	7
	The War Against The Dutch Republics In South Africa	H. J. Ogden	1901	5
	To Modder River with Methuen	Alfred Kinnear	1900	4
	The Transvaal trouble	John Hays Hammond	1900	4
	From Capetown to Ladysmith	G. W. Steevens	1900	4
	The war in South Africa	John Atkinson Hobson	1900	4
	A narrative of the Boer War	Carter, Thomas Fortescue.	1896	3
	Transvaal souvenir	Albert Martin Belding	1899	3
	In the court of history	Goldwin Smith	1902	3
	Lord Milner's work in South Africa	W. Basil Worsfold	1906	3
	War in South Africa and the Dark continent from savagery to civilization	William Harding	1899	2
	Celebrities of the army	Charles N. Robinson	1900	2
	Memories	Sophie Leviseur	1982	2
	The crime of the century: the Boer unmasked	Unknown author	1899	1
	The Boer war, its causes, and its interest to Canadians	Emerson Bristol Biggar	1899	1
	Who's who at the war	Unknown author	1900	1
	The Boers and the cause of the war in the South Africa	John Ross	1900	1
	A history of the war from the Boer ultimatum to the advance of Lord Roberts	Edgar Sanderson	1900	1
	From Capetown to Ladysmith	G. W. Steevens	1900	1
	Copies of Minutes and Memoranda, with enclosures, which passed between His Excellency the Governor and the late Ministry, regarding the compensation to be paid for losses sustained	Cape of Good Hope.	1900	1
	Peace or war in South Africa.	Methuen, Algernon Sir	1901	1
	The history of the Boer war	Foster Hugh Egerton Cunliffe	1901	1
	The history of the Boer war	Foster Hugh Egerton Cunliffe	1901	1
	Organization, equipment, despatch and service of the Canadian contingents during the war in South Africa, 1899-1900	Canada. Militia and Defence, Department of	1901	1
	Peace or war in South Africa	Methuen, Algernon Sir	1901	1
	The war in South Africa; the advance to Pretoria after Paardeberg	Prussia. Grosser Generalstab. Kriegsgeschichtliche Abteilung.	1906	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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