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Zulu War
historical books on the Zulu War battles, Battle of Isandhlwana, Rorke's Drift, the Siege and
Relief of Eshowe, and the Zulu Chiefs and Warriors. Historical
military books of the Zulu War by leading book publishers. By leading authors Ian
Knight, Ron Lock available from Cranston Fine Arts.
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Book serial number BK3899. Price
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Great
Zulu Commanders by Ian Knight
During much of the nineteenth century, the history of
the Zulu kingdom was characterized by conflict. Many of the famous
battles of Zulu history - Blood River, Isandlwana, Rorke's Drift - have
passed into international folklore, but the Zulu who fought them remain
curiously faceless, relegated by their own fierce reputation to the realms
of the 'noble savage warrior'. Great Zulu Commanders looks beyond
this misleading image to explore the careers of a number of men who
actually led the Zulu forces into battle. It covers a range of Zulu
military leaders including : members of the Royal House, like Shaka
himself, whose conquests made the Zulu kingdom a mighty power in Southern
Africa; King Cetshwayo, who commanded at the Battle of 'Ndondakasuka in
1856 and guided the anti-British strategy in 1879; Cetshwayo's son,
Dinuzulu, the last Zulu king to lead his men into battle in person; men of
more humble origin, like Chief Bambatha, who led the last resistance to
colonial rule in 1906; Prince Dubalamanzi, whose role as the Zulu
commander at Rorke's Drift ensured him a lasting reputation among his
enemies; Mbilini waMswati, not a Zulu at all but a Swazi, who nevertheless
proved the most daring guerrilla fighter to emerge from the war against
the British; Zibhebhu kaMaphitha, arguably the most dynamicZulu leader in
1879, who turned against the Royal House after the Anglo-Zulu War and
defeated the King's armies in a series of brilliant and bitter battles in
the 1880's
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Book serial number BK60. Price £19.99. Fully
illustrated hard back book with 256 pages.
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The Zulus and Matabele
Warrior Nations by Glen Lyndon Dodds
This is the story of the two great warrior nations
that held sway in much of southern Africa during most of the nineteenth
century. Based on recent scholarship, it presents a lucid, authoritative
and enjoyable account of the histories of the Zulu and Matabele nations,
from their rise to power in the first half of the nineteenth century to
their downfall at white hands as the century drew to a close. It takes the
reader into the places of power and on to the fields of battle and
features some of Africa's most enduring heroes.
The book begins with a discussion of the reign of
Shaka, the highly controversial founder of the Zulu nation, before moving
on to the reign of Dingane, which witnessed bitter fighting between the
Zulus and migrant Boers in engagements such as the epic Battle of Blood
River. Consolidation and civil war followed before the Zulus found
themselves fighting for survival in the climactic war of 1879 against
imperial Britain, a war renowned for such battles as Isandlwana and
Rorke's Drift, and a war that led to the subsequent incorporation of
Zululand into the British Empire.
The chapters on the Matabele chart their emergence as
a nation under Mzilikazi, who clashed with both the Zulus and the Boers,
until their defeat by the British in the 1890s. The text concludes with a
discussion of recent events in Zulu and Matabele history, such as the end
of apartheid and Matabele involvement in the bloody war that resulted in
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The Zulu War 1879
by Ian Knight and Ian castle
The war of 1879
resulted in the end of independence for the Zulu kingdom - but at a
shocking cost to the British. Focusing on the battles of Isandhlwana, the
initial Zulu victory, and Khambula, the turning-point in the war, this
book tells the story of Lord Chelmsford's invasion of Zululand and the
dynamic response of King Cetshwayo's impis. The authors are the foremost
experts on the subject and have written a number of books on this and
other Victorian campaigns.
(new edition now available)
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The Zulu War by Angus
McBride
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The Anatomy of the Zulu Army
From Shaka to
Cetshwayo 1818- 1879 by leading Zulu War author Ian Knight.
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serial number ZA1.
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