TY - BOOK AU - POWELL Geoffrey TI - Buller: a scapegoat?: a life of General Sir Redvers Buller 1839-1908 SN - 085052279X (hbk.) PY - 1994/// CY - London PB - Leo Cooper KW - BIOGRAPHIES KW - BRITAIN KW - ARMY KW - REDVERS BULLER KW - SECOND BOER WAR N2 - Biography of Sir Redvers Buller who was one of Britain's most popular military heroes of the nineteenth century. As British commander-in-chief in the first few battles of the 2nd Boer War (1899-1902) he became the victim of public prejudice and a scapegoat for the errors and defects in British strategy when faced with a modern well trained and well equipped adversary ER -