Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
He sits in an old armchair in the corner covered with bits of blankets and a bucket behind the chair that stinks… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
The Boer War occurred 37 years ago. Boer means farmer. Many criticized a great power like Britain for trying to wipe out… — Henry Hamilton Beamish Copy Share Image
The Victorians pioneered numbers of commercial rackets about which their descendants complain (the manufacturers of Bovril, it appears, were virtually official sponsors… — D. J. Taylor Copy Share Image
