Soldiers and Bushmen
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 29 July 2025
- 06 August 2025
- ISBN:
- 9781009597838
- 9781009597814
- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.55kg, 256 Pages
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- Australian Army History Series
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Soldiers and Bushmen: The Australian Army in South Africa, 1899–1902 examines the commitment to what was expected to be a short war. It presents a thematic, analytical history of the birth of the Australian Army in South Africa, while exploring the Army's evolution from colonial units into a consolidated federal force. Soldiers and Bushmen investigates the establishment of the 'bushmen experiment' – the belief that the unique qualities of rural Australians would solve tactical problems on the veldt. This, in turn, influenced ideals around leadership, loyalty and traditional combat that fed the mythology of the Australians as natural soldiers. The book also examines the conduct of the war itself: how the Army adapted to the challenges of a battlefield transformed by technology, and the moral questions posed by the transition to fighting a counterinsurgency campaign.
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