Book Description
Few jobs in Hollywood are as shrouded in mystery as the role of the producer. What does it take to be a producer, how does one get started, and what on earth does one actually do? In So You Want to Be a Producer Lawrence Turman, the producer of more than forty films, including The Graduate, The River Wild, Short Circuit, and American History X, and Endowed Chair of the famed Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California, answers these questions and many more.
Examining all the nuts and bolts of production, such as raising money and securing permissions, finding a story and developing a script, choosing a director, hiring actors, and marketing your project, So You Want to Be a Producer is a must-have resource packed with insider information and first-hand advice from top Hollywood producers, writers, and directors, offering invaluable help for beginners and professionals alike.
Including a comprehensive case study of Turman’s film The Graduate, this complete guide to the movie industry’s most influential movers and shakers brims with useful tips and contains all the information you need to take your project from idea to the big screen.
Customer Reviews:
it's a start.......2007-03-09
this is a really intended to introduce one who doesn't even know what a producer or does to the basic job functions. as a producer, i found it a little be text book'ish. a producer really needs to learn more about business in general and the politics of film making.
dark arts productions
So- So.......2006-05-14
Lawrence Turman emphasizes that this is not a how to book and rightfully so. This is mostly a memoir on how he made it in the business. He writes numerous times he is part of the Peter Stark porucing program at USC, so many times that it feels that you're being hit over the head with a baseball bat to make sure it sinks in.
He does write on what it takes to be a producer but I wish more emphasis was placed on how to get your foot in the door. He name drops so many times, it brings truth to the old Hollywood adage, "It's not what you know but who you know."
However, his stories on how he produced the Graduate and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, two great movies, are well worth the read.
I'm not a Producer, But I play one on TV.......2006-04-25
I'm not a producer. I'm a graphic designer. And from what I can tell from Mr. Turman's book, there are a lot of parallels between the two. In fact, that's why I bought the book in the first place: I suddenly found my creative-self undergoing mitosis, and generating a business counter-part. That's the part that doesn't just create a job, but has to sell and manage it. During my frustrations with having gone from "Designer" to "Orchestrator" a friend of mine told me that I was becoming more a less a "Producer." Around the time he said that, I was feeling more like worn-out ready to discard product than a producer.
And then I came across this book, and the title matched perfectly with the mood. Sort of. The author still loves what he does for a living. He's a masochist.
I got exactly what I wanted from this book: That is, a big reality check. Turman is probably dealing with the largest ego's the world will ever know - Cinema Artisans. Artists, when unfulfilled and unappreciated, are insecure. Invert that whole scenario and that insecurity turns into something that only a Producer or agent will tolerate. And when I read Turman's descriptions about many of the off-stage *characters* he's had to juggle, suddenly my life and work didn't seem so bad after all. Of course, I know jack about Producing a movie. But that's not the point. This book essentially illustrates how any type of "producing", places that person at the very center of a massive crowd that will undoubtedly span the gamut of personalities - all of which have to be juggled if the job is to be finished. Turman warns that it is not a job for the faint of heart.
And he covers every topic from what I can see. Like *collaboration*. A word that makes me laugh everytime I hear it. Because Turman's right: collabo projects are like a marriage where it is very rarely between equals. And sure, we may have known this already before opening the book, but I'll be damned if it doesn't feel good to hear someone else say it. And I can certainly relate to the collabo's he's outlined here.
And maybe that's the best part about this book: commiseration. Again, obviously I can't relate to working with a celebrity. But I can relate to working with artists and all the stubborn insecurities that come with that. Or the ugly competition. Or the divine posturing. And sometimes you actually like the SOB's, but they drive you insane.
There's a nostalgic value to the book that softens and seperates it from the suited-up shark value it could have had. For instance, Turman seems to have a healthy understanding of the balance between art and commerce - a balance that virtually defines Graphic Design. A self-indulgent artist will probably create a brilliant yet alienating piece of art with questionable marketing potential. Marketing types consider themselves the remedy for that. And yet now, as Turman illustrates, the scales have tipped to the other side with the marketing mavens taking over and pushing so far to the other side of commerce that movies are no longer stories but products to be consumed, discarded and forgotten. The best movies are stories that are remembered - and even quoted the way some quote Shakespeare. Ideally, you want to balance the scales so that both ambitions have their time in the sun. I'm too young to ever know if such a time existed. It sounds like maybe this time did exist during Turman's era, when he produced the movies he talks about in this book. But those days seem to have faded.
While there may not be a lot to like about being a producer, there's still a lot to love about this book. Another book like this should be written with a dozen producers talking about their jobs, their movies and the stories that go with them. But have mercy on the poor soul knighted with the task of producing such a book.
Great Book for New or Experienced Producers.......2005-11-25
Whether you are an aspiring or experienced producer, this is the book for you. The author packs a lot of information into the 250+ pages. The book is part "motivational," part "how-to," and part "memoir." It all sums up to one of the best and most entertaining producing books I've ever run across. I particular like the author's suggestion that you can maintain your morals and ethics and still be successful in the movie business.
Average customer rating:
- A Front Row Seat to British Cinema History
|
So You Want to Be in Pictures
Val Guest
Manufacturer: Reynolds & Hearn
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
 Arts & Literature
| Biographies & Memoirs
| Subjects
| Books
| Actors & Actresses
| Artists, Architects & Photographers
| Authors
| Composers & Musicians
| Dancers
| Entertainers
| Movie Directors
| New Age
| Television Performers
| Theatre
General
| Biographies & Memoirs
| Subjects
| Books
Direction & Production
| Movies
| Entertainment
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Movies
| Entertainment
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Arts & Photography
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Performing Arts
| Arts & Photography
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 1903111153 |
Customer Reviews:
A Front Row Seat to British Cinema History.......2005-03-21
As a young writer on the London scene in the busy thirties Val Guest promptly jumped from feature articles for the Hollywood Reporter to crafting screenplays. An interview with British director "Nipper" Lupino Lane, future star Ida Lupino's uncle, led to an invitation to work with him at Gainsborough Studios in London's Islington area.
Before Guest knew it he was a director himself in the busy Gainsborough milieu, providing initial acting breaks to the likes of his friend Michael Rennie and Jean Simmons. A star with whom he worked closely during the period was Margaret Lockwood, while his neighbor in the office next door for ten interesting years was none other than Alfred Hitchcock. When Guest set sail for the comedy realm he hooked up with celebrated London funny man Will Hay.
Film lovers will find this book a veritable feast chock full of anecdotes about London in an exciting era when Guest turned out products at a fantastic clip while helping in the war effort as well. Some of the most interesting pages of the book relate to how Gainsborough film folk such as himself continued turning out movies to enhance British morale by day and risked their lives as volunteer fire fighters by night amid unrelenting attacks by Germany's crack air force, the Luftwaffe, during the Battle of Britain. Guest chronicles how the British "stiff upper lip" was invoked through humor in the wake of attack as he swapped jokes with kindred spirit James Mason, the handsome and talented Yorkshire leading man, who also performed valuable night fire fighting duties.
A key point of Guest's life surfaced when an American leading lady from New Jersey took the West End by storm as she played to packed houses in Garson Kanin's comedy, "Born Yesterday." Guest ardently pursued dazzling blonde Yolande Donlan from the first time he saw her on stage and ultimately she became his wife.
With Yolande Donlan so popular in Britain from her rousing stage success it was only natural for Guest to star her in films, and so he did. In 1949 she starred opposite Michael Rennie in "Miss Pilgrim's Progress." One year later Guest directed Donlan in "The Body Said No" opposite Rennie and in "Mr. Drake's Duck" in which she appeared opposite another of Guest's long time friends from the London scene, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
The fifties proved to be a highly productive decade for Guest as he worked with such celebrated performers in British productions as Bette Davis, Dirk Bogarde, Frankie Howerd, Peter Sellers, Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels, Laurence Harvey, and Leo McKern.
In the sixties Guest also remained intensely busy, becoming an in demand globe trotting director and screenwriter. In 1961 his British production "The Day the Earth Caught Fire" with Janet Munro and Leo McKern resulted in him winning a British Academy Award for Best Screenplay. He recounts sitting at the Dorchester Hotel on award night next to a fellow nervous nominee who won as director in the Best Documentary category, a young filmmaker named John Schlesinger who would soon become famous for such films as "Darling", "The Midnight Cowboy" and "Sunday, Bloody Sunday".
In 1963 Guest scored one of his most impressive triumphs as he directed and wrote the screenplay for "80,000 Suspects" under his own production banner. The film was set in scenic and historic Bath and starred Claire Bloom and Richard Johnson along with Yolande Donlan.
The sixties was the decade of James Bond and Guest moved successfully with the tide as he produced, directed, and wrote the screenplay for the 1964 release "Where the Spies Are" with David Niven and Francois Dorleac. In 1966 he directed along with John Huston, Kenneth Hughes, Robert Parrish, and Joseph McGrath the James Bond spy spoof "Casino Royale" with an all star cast that included Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, David Niven, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Charles Boyer, and Jean-Paul Belmondo.
In 1971 Guest was approached by producer Robert Baker to direct "The Persuaders" television series starring Roger Moore and Tony Curtis. When he begged off, explaining that he had never worked in television, Curtis and Moore prevailed on him to change his mind and join them, which he did. Success resulted and soon glamorous Joan Collins was aboard on the team as well.
Guest then brings his fascinating chronicle into the present, revealing how, after much investigation, he and Yolande found their place in the sun in Palm Springs, the desert community some two hours by car from the movie capital. He notes how popular a favorite is has been with the movie set since the thirties, when tennis enthusiasts Charles Farrell and Ralph Bellamy launched the Racquet Club, after which scores of their Hollywood friends followed them to the desert community.
Val Guest has been part of the cinema's rich history following a successful London beginning that ultimately took him to points throughout the world as an established international filmmaker of distinction. It is a fascinating journey and readers are considerably richer in insight for taking it with him as we move from the sound stages to fascinating locations throughout the cinema world.
Average customer rating:
|
So You Want to Make Movies: My Life As an Independent Film Producer
Sidney Pink
Manufacturer: Pineapple Press (FL)
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
General
| Biographies & Memoirs
| Subjects
| Books
Direction & Production
| Movies
| Entertainment
| Subjects
| Books
Performing Arts
| Arts & Photography
| Subjects
| Books
| Dance
| General
| Reference
| Theater
General
| Foreign Languages
| Reference
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0910923779 |
Book Description
In between fronting rock's most iconoclastic group, the Sex Pistols, and reemerging in the twenty-first century as a reality TV hero on I'm A Celebrity, Lydon led Public Image Ltd., who merged disco, funk, and industrial punk to create coruscating soundscapes with catchy tunes-from "Death Disco" and "Flowers of Romance" to "Rise" and "This Is Not A Love Song"-and caused riots at their gigs. This is Public Image Ltd.'s terrifying story.
Customer Reviews:
so far..........2007-09-26
i am half way thru and so far so good,theres alot of new public image info that i did not know,and the interviews with keith levene and jim walker are fair and revealing.
Average customer rating:
|
Romancing the Tomes, Popular Culture, Law and Feminism
Thornton
Manufacturer: Routledge Cavendish
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
Popular Culture
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Sociology
| Social Sciences
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
Feminist Theory
| Women's Studies
| Nonfiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Law
| Subjects
| Books
Jurisprudence
| Perspectives on Law
| Law
| Subjects
| Books
Reference
| Law Practice
| Law
| Subjects
| Books
Reference
| Law Practice
| Law
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 185941723X |
Book Description
The Boers of South Africa responded to Britain's annexation of the gold-and-diamond-rich Transvaal region by declaring war on October 11, 1899. The English believed the fighting would be over by Christmas -- never dreaming they were on the brink of one of the longest, bloodiest, most costly and humiliating military campaigns in their history.
Mammoth in scope and scholarship, as vivid, fast-moving and breathtakingly compelling as the finest fiction. Thomas Pakenham's The Boer War is the definitive account of this extraordinary conflict -- a war precipitated by greed and marked by almost inconcievable blundering and brutalities . . . and whose shattering repercussions can be felt to this very day.
Customer Reviews:
excellent history of the worst imperial war.......2007-01-24
Pakenham's work remains a standard in the history of the Boer War, not only for its scope, but for its clarity and readability. He certainly covers the gamut of the war, but those interested in the causes and precursors to the war would be better served with a different work, as those details are lost in his description of military aspects.
As I suggest for many works of this scope and quality, if there is one book you must read on the Second South Africa War, make it this one.
Vivid writing, primary sources, comprehensive understanding.......2004-10-14
Atr the outset, it should be noted that this book could be usefully supplemented by reading COMMANDO by Deneys Reitz - A Boer journal ,of the Boer War.
Much of the horror of 20th century warfare - trench warfare, concentration camps, shooting or otherwise mistreating prisoners - was carried out in the Boer war. Some readers, and I am a general reader not an historian, will have been aware of elements of the Boer War such as the shooting of prisoners by Lt "Breaker Morant" which was and is something of a cause celebre in Australia retold in books, plays and a fine contemporary film. But the one feeling I have after reading this fine book by Mr Pakenham is a far greater sympathy for the Boers and a much better appreciation of the contribution and sacrifice that black Africans made in what was touted as a "white man's" war. In fact it was a black man's war too with c100,000 black riflemen seeing duty, and fighting in effect for the right to vote. Mr Pakenham provides evidence to suggest that the successful survival by the British at the siege of Mafeking was made possible by the sacrifice of black Africans.
Item: 3500 horses perished in one day in one cavalry charge.
Item: 400,000 horses, mules, donkeys died in total
Item: Lord Kitchener invented the concentration camp using a Spanish model re Cubans
Item: The British military and politicians did not care about the thousands of women and children in concentration camps and as the result of disgusting conditions many many died as a result.
Item: It was not superior marksmanship or courage that won, but the application of the knowledge that defence was superior to attack with the new, smokeless, high velocity, weapons.
The book is very well written, with a reliance on much primary source material, especially diaries and letters of the major British protagonists
including Sir Alfred Milner, High Commissioner for South Africa and Lt Governor of Cape Colony who is revealed in his own words as a thoroughly despicable character. The reader also gets a very real feeling for the exigencies of the landscape, the boredom of routine for the military, the clash of battle where the stones on the ground or the mud on the banks of a river become as frighteningly real as the whizz and splat of dum dum bullets. Clearly the writer has experienced the landscape firsthand. The reader also gets a very real picture of the characters involved, their weaknesses and strengths, including some ordinary and very likeable soldiers or "Tommy's".
The likely causes and consequences of the war are made clear to the reader. The usual suspects - imperial supremacy of the British; greed for gold, diamonds; denial of franchise; nationalism - are covered and a re-evaluation of the protaganists undertaken. It is a fair and balanced re-assessment of the task faced by General Sir Redvers Buller and his inability to overcome it whilst appreciating his intelligent appraisal of the situation he found himself in. On the other hand it reveals Lord Kitchener as arrogant and hard working but overrated and over-compensated for his role. The book also emphasises the CRITICAL role of transport and supply.
We are still living with the consequences of it today but one redeeming reality is that democracy and a free press are likely to inhibit a repetition. What was that? Guantanomo Bay? Oil? Imperialism? Franchise? Prisons?
Totally engrossing book.......2004-09-21
Exposing the origins of the war as basically blatant attempt by jingoistic imperialists like Milner, in Britain, in league with Cecil Rhodes and his (...)cronies, to grab power (and gold, and diamond) in South Africa. It must be said that the Boers were not exactly victims in the war, prior to that they had inflicted much sufferings on the Blacks and were now getting their just desserts for past sins.
The British Army also came out of this war with a sullied reputation for sexual depravity (Lord kitchener, Baden Powell, Douglas Haig), inept generalship. plunder, pillage, indiscrminate and wanton destruction of life and property, as well as pioneering the use of concentration camps for Boer women and children, who were deliberatedly left out in the cold to rot, and die from hunger, disease and assorted inhumane treatments.
What is amazing was that the Boers were totally reconciled with their imperial masters and co-colonists in one generation, and would enlist en masse in fighting for the rotten British Empire in the Great War. Apparently, the deal was struck that high sounding Victorian Britain would look the other way on the mistreatment and apartheid policies in South Africa, provided the Boers pay fealty to their London masters after the peace.
The Boer War, in essence, was a war fought between 2 unscrupulous, greedy races over the spoils, both material and human, of Africa.
Sensational book.......2003-09-14
I'm very pleased that Thomas Pakenham's classic has been reissued as an affordable paperback. Now I can stop borrowing the library's hardcover copy. This is without doubt the finest, most authoritative general history of the Boer War. Pakenham's lively writing style makes the book readable and enjoyable, and the scholarship is so good that you know what you are reading is reliable.
Eerie parallels to Vietnam.......2003-04-29
There is much to commend about Thomas Pakenhamýs history of the Boer War. The nature and origins of the conflict are cogently presented. He describes the main actors in the tale ý Alfred Milner, Cecil Rhodes, Paul Kruger, Jan Smuts, etc. ý with a dramatic flair that greatly adds to the readability of the book and turns the history of the conflict into a clash of personalities as much as a clash of empire. The author also does a superb job putting the events of the Boer War in the context of the Victorian Age and the last days of Splendid Isolation of the British Empire. Finally, the book has a number of detailed, but easy to follow maps that greatly enhance the readers ability to follow and digest the narrative (those who frequently read military history understand that this isnýt a trivial point).
Ironically, however, the thing that struck me the most about this book was something the author never commented on at all: the remarkable historical parallels between the Boer War and the US war in Vietnam sixty-five years later. In light of salient differences in the conflicts (time, place, technology, people, the outcome -- the British ýwoný-- etc.), the wars followed a similar trajectory and the British and American forces developed similar responses to similar challenges.
To begin with, the British and American forces suffered from a significant handicap in intelligence collection and mobility, a disadvantage neither side was ever able to overcome. Second, both the British and Americans deployed massive amounts of troops to the theater, but only a small fraction were ever able to engage the enemy, creating an extremely long and cumbersome ýtailý with precious few ýteeth.ý Third, the inability to effectively hold territory or engage the enemy in open battle deprived the British and Americans of traditional battlefield metrics, and ultimately led to the use of enemy ýbody countý (Kitchener called it ýthe bagý but it was the same idea in principle) as the ineffective but de facto measurement of success. Fourth, the challenge of keeping the civilian population separated from the marauding guerillas led the British and Americans to the same response, including locking local populations up in protected communities (called ýlaagersý in South Africa and ýhamletsý in Vietnam) and the creation of a protective fence to prevent the enemy from penetrating territory ostensibly held by local forces. Fifth, attempts to fight the enemy on even terms led both the British and Americans to develop their own version of guerillas to fight along side friendly locals (the carbineers in South Africa ý including the famous Breaker Morant ý and the Marine Corpsý Ruff-Puffs in Vietnam). Finally, the British and American war efforts were gravely undermined by massive public unrest against the war on the home front.
For those with a keen interest in military history in general or colonial/anti-insurgency campaigns in particular, this book is not to be missed.
Book Description
Frederick Russell Burnham (1861-1947), an American from California, taught scouting to Robert Baden-Powell, inspiring B-P to eventually found the Boy Scouts. Burnham went to Africa in 1893 to scout for Cecil Rhodes on the Cape-to-Cairo Railway. He was a scout in the Matabele War when that engine of death - the Maxim gun - was introduced. Burnham gained fame when he survived the British equivalent of Custer's Last Stand.
During a rebellion three years later, he shot the oracle believed to be the instigator. That act expanded his fame. During this conflict, Burnham took a British Army officer, Colonel Baden-Powell, into the African hills and taught him scouting. Baden-Powell's very life was changed, and forever after that he promoted scouting at every opportunity.
Burnham found gold in the Klondike, but he was called back to Africa to serve as chief of scouts for Field Marshal Lord Roberts in the Boer War. In Johannesburg, he was reunited with Baden-Powell, who had become famous for his defense of Mafeking. Burnham and Baden-Powell began forty years of spirited correspondence in which Burnham provided the ideas and Baden-Powell - in his own words - "sucked" Burnham's brains.
Evacuated to London for a war injury, Burnham was acclaimed as King of Scouts. Queen Victoria invited he and his wife to dine with her at her beloved Osborn House. Burnham went on to explore what is now Ghana and to introduce agriculture to Kenya. Later he joined John Hays Hammond to develop agriculture in the Yaqui River Delta of Sonora.
When the Wright Brothers' invention became a viable tool of war, Burnham abandoned horse scouting. He became an oil scout and his zeal led him to discover oil at Dominguez Mesa south of Los Angeles.
Long an associate of Teddy Roosevelt, Burnham took up the environmental cause with great zeal. The closing chapters describe his activities on behalf of the Save the Redwoods League, the California State Parks Commission, and a campaign to set aside two million acres for the protection of the Bighorn Sheep of Arizona.
This true story is told as a biographical novel.
For more information about the book visit the author's website at www.BurnhamKingofScouts.com.
Customer Reviews:
Deperately needs an editor.......2007-05-06
It's good, but it was published on-demand by the author and could have used a professional editor to clean it up a bit.
Also, although it's a novel it would have been nice to have an introduction, bibliography, and notes, and generally some more explanation.
Average customer rating:
- Definately worth the money!
|
Gender, Race, and the Writing of Empire: Public Discourse and the Boer War (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Paula M. Krebs
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
General
| Africa
| History
| Subjects
| Books
General
| England
| Europe
| History
| Subjects
| Books
19th Century
| British
| World Literature
| Literature & Fiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| British
| World Literature
| Literature & Fiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Literature & Fiction
| Subjects
| Books
| Classics
| Comic
| Contemporary
| Literary
General
| Criticism & Theory
| History & Criticism
| Literature & Fiction
| Subjects
| Books
Movements & Periods
| History & Criticism
| Literature & Fiction
| Subjects
| Books
| Arthurian Romance
| Beat Generation
| General
| Gothic Revival
| Medieval
| Modernism
| Postmodernism
| Renaissance
| Romanticism
| Surrealism
| Victorian
British Literature
| English
| Humanities
| New & Used Textbooks
| Stores
| Books
Africa
| History
| Humanities
| New & Used Textbooks
| Stores
| Books
Europe
| History
| Humanities
| New & Used Textbooks
| Stores
| Books
African & Middle Eastern
| World Literature
| Humanities
| New & Used Textbooks
| Stores
| Books
Look Inside History Books
| Trip
| Specialty Stores
| Books
Look Inside Fiction Books
| Trip
| Specialty Stores
| Books
ASIN: 0521653223 |
Book Description
This book looks at the ways Victorian ideas about gender and race supported British imperialism at the turn of the century. It examines the Boer War of 1899-1902 through the war writings of literary figures such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Olive Schreiner, H. Rider Haggard and Rudyard Kipling, and also through newspapers, propaganda, and other forms of public debate in print. Paula M. Krebs' analysis of the part played by ideas about gender and race in public discourse makes a significant new contribution to the study of British imperialism.
Customer Reviews:
Definately worth the money!.......1999-03-25
I am not really a person of literature but this book I thought was really worth the time and money.
Product Description
Witton's scathing political indictment of the British Empire during the Boer War, originally published in 1907. Illustrated with half-tone photographs. The basis for the movie "Breaker Morant".
Average customer rating:
- Interesting and Indispensible Reference Book
- Great Boer War Book!
|
Small Arms of the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902
Manufacturer: Kraal Publishers
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 1874979316 |
Product Description
A definitive work on the Small Arms of this significant historical conflict by Dr Ron Bester and Associates, the majority of whom are SAAACA members. The majority of the examples photographed in the Book are drawn from Collections held in South Africa and maintained by SAAACA members. A 'must have' reference for anyone with an interest in Boer and or British Military Arms of the period. The first in a unique series of two, the second edition will deal with the Artillery used on both sides. Over three hundred pages A4 format, in full colour on high quality paper, hardcover bound with dust jacket for the Standard Edition. This is a limited print-run publication with many new and previously unpublished facts complimented by many colour photographs
Customer Reviews:
Interesting and Indispensible Reference Book .......2007-01-01
The penultimate book on weapons of all kinds used during the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). Presented in a very easy to read style, it's a "hard to put down" book for any British or South African arms enthusiast. Monumental research provides fresh text and never seen before pictures clarifying types of weapons, as well as contract details and usage. Highly recommended.
Great Boer War Book!.......2005-10-23
This is the best book on weapons used during the Anglo-Boer War or 1899. The author lives in the Free State and is deply ivolved in recording the history of the Boere. A must have book one weapons of the era.
Average customer rating:
|
The Boer War
Denis Judd , and
Keith Surridge
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
South Africa
| Africa
| History
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Military
| History
| Subjects
| Books
19th Century
| World
| History
| Subjects
| Books
General
| England
| Europe
| History
| Subjects
| Books
Look Inside History Books
| Trip
| Specialty Stores
| Books
Similar Items:
-
The Boer War 1899-1902 (Essential Histories)
ASIN: 1403961506 |
Book Description
The Boer War was an epic both of heroism and of barbarism. Fought by the British against the Dutch inhabitants of South Aftrica, the Boer War had an extraordinary cast of characters including Commanders-in chief buller, Roberts and Kitchener, Winston Churchill, Arthur Conan Doyle, Emily Hobhouse, Rudyard Kipling, and Gandhi. The war revealed the ineptitude of the British military, and exposed the corrupt underside of British imperialism . For the first time, Judd and Surridge debunk several myths. There was not, for instance, a straightforward divide between the Boers and British. In fact, the overriding aim of both sides was to maintain European supremacy and to keep Africans and Indians "in their place." Giving us a sense of how the Apartheid era was born, The Boer War is a gripping read.
Average customer rating:
|
The Anglo-Boer war: A chronology
Pieter G Cloete
Manufacturer: J.P. van der Walt
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
Look Inside History Books
| Trip
| Specialty Stores
| Books
Southern Africa
| Africa
| History
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0799326321 |
Customer Reviews:
Informative, enjoyable, definitive.......2006-08-22
Quite easily the best book on the topic of the second Anglo-Boer war. If there were but one book you read concerning this timely subject, it is this one. The author leads the reader on a fast-paced but thorough and enjoyable tour of the people and places involved. The intermixture of battlefield strategic and tactical decisions are interspersed with human stories of the men who carried out the orders and the political forces that fueled the conflict. A must have for the panoramic big picture with detail enough to satisfy the most avid military historian. It is a work I come back to again and again.
Superb.......2006-05-12
Simply put, one of the greatest, most detailed and yet most readable histories, military or otherwise, to ever have been published. If you have even a passing interest in history, this book is for you. The parallels that can be drawn to our present day situation in the middle east are shocking, and this book was written quite a while ago.
An excellent non-academic history of the war..........2000-11-04
This is an absorbing, well written account of a neglected (by American readers anyways) war at the turn of the last century. Rather than being a dry academic text, Farwell's writing style serves to bring the war to life 100 years after the fact.
Coupled with other accounts of the war, like Goodbye Dolly Gray (another excellent book) written by Rayne Kruger, the average reader can understand some of the causal factors of South Africa's apartied system and gain an insight into the history of a long troubled region.
I wholeheartedly recommend this book to any reader looking for a fast-paced non-academic history of the Boer War. You won't go wrong.
Books:
- Spencer's Adventures -- The Great Toilet Paper Caper
- Stan Banker's Walk Cheerfully the Middleroad
- Steven Spielberg: Interviews (Conversations With Filmmakers Series)
- Story CD: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
- Stray Dogs & Lone Wolves: The Samurai Film Handbook
- Surgical Recall (Recall Series)
- Tab Hunter Confidential: The Making of a Movie Star
- Tennis Ticklers
- The 100 Best Films to Rent You've Never Heard Of: Hidden Treasures, Neglected Classics, and Hits From By-Gone Eras
- The A List: The National Society of Film Critics' 100 Essential Films
Books Index
Books Home
Recommended Books
- Aging Gracefully: Ideas to Improve Retirement Security in America
- Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia Flash 8 in 24 Hours
- International Film Festival Guide
- Love and Other Four-Letter Words
- Shaping the Game: The New Leader's Guide to Effective Negotiating
- The Charm School
- Newcomb's Wildflower Guide
- Microscopic Simulation of Financial Markets: From Investor Behavior to Market Phenomena
- Ownership and Control: Rethinking Corporate Governance for the Twenty-First Century
- September 11 From The Inside: A Novel
What a Producer Does: The Art of Moviemaking (Not the Business)
Producing, Financing, and Distributing Film: A Comprehensive Legal and Business Guide
The Independent Film Producer's Survival Guide: A Business and Legal Sourcebook
Hello, He Lied -- and Other Tales from the Hollywood Trenches
The Hollywood Rules
