Zulu: Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift 22Nd-23rd January 1879

by Ian Knight, Michael Chappell, Angus McBride

Recounts how and why, in January 1879, at the remote African crag called Isandlwana, a force of nearly 1,500 British Regular and Colonial troops experienced in African warfare, armed with modern rifles, well supplied, and encamped at their leisure on ground of their own choosing came to be annihilated by a tribal people armed mostly with spears. Includes some 150 photographs and drawings, with maps of the battlefields and movements, and with color paintings of the fighting men. No index. Distributed by Combined Books, Inc. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

128 pages, Hardcover

First published March 15, 1994

About the author

Ian Knight, BA, FRGS is a historian, author, battlefield guide and artifacts specialist internationally regarded as a leading authority on the nineteenth-century history of the Zulu kingdom, and in particular the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. He has a degree in Afro-Caribbean Studies from the University of Kent and has been researching and writing for more than thirty years. He has published over forty books and monographs, the majority of them on Zulu history and the rest on other nineteenth-century British colonial campaigns. He has appeared on-screen in a number of television documentaries. He is an Honorary Research Associate of the KwaZulu-Natal Museum in Pietermaritzburg.