Dead was everything : studies in the Anglo-Zulu War /

The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 still intrigues both scholars and enthusiasts alike more than 130 years after it was fought. Its story contains tragedy, high drama and the heavy loss of human life; it involved five major battles and two lesser fights; and led to the snuffing out of the direct male Napole...

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Main Author: Smith, Keith (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: South Yorkshire, England : Frontline Books, 2014
Edition:Second edition
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505 0 |a Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Preface to the Second Edition; Introduction; Chapter 1: Some Preliminary Matters; The Hazards of Primary Sources; A Question of Time; Sir Bartle Frere's Ultimatum; Chapter 2: Isandlwana: Exordium; The Gunfight at Sihayo's; Topography of the Battlefield; The Zulu Impi; The Zulu Bivouac; Chapter 3: Isandlwana: Proelium; Discovery of the Zulu Impi; A Battle Timetable; The Eclipse; Chapter 4: Isandlwana: Post Scriptum; The Annotated Maps of Isandlwana; An Addendum; The Messages 
505 8 |a The Several Captains BartonThe Queen's Colour; Chapter 5: Rorke's Drift; The Hero of Rorke's Drift; The NNC at Rorke's Drift; The Blame Game; Chapter 6: Intermission; The NNC Withdrawal from Eshowe; Hlobane: A New Perspective; Chapter 7: The Second Invasion; The Road to Ulundi; Lord Chelmsford and Sir Henry Bulwer; Chapter 8: After the War; Lord Chelmsford and Whitehall; Major Graves v. the Natal Colonist; Captain Montgomery's Secret; The Zulu Use of Drugs; Notes; Bibliography; Index 
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