The Lion and the Springbok: Britain and South Africa since the Boer War

by Ronald Hyam, Peter Henshaw

This unique account of the "uneasy special relationship" between Britain and South Africa surveys all political, economic, cultural, and geostrategic aspects. Starting from the bruising experience of the South African Boer War, Ronald Hyam and Peter Henshaw trace the countries' deteriorating relationship through a series of crises to South Africa's departure from the Commonwealth in 1961 and subsequent return, post-apartheid, in 1994.

396 pages, Hardcover

First published June 30, 2003

About the author

Dr. Ronald Hyam is an Emeritus Fellow, and a former President of Magdalene College. He is Emeritus Reader in British Imperial History in the University of Cambridge and Archivist Emeritus of the College.