There Will Be an Awful Row At Home About This: The Zulu War

by Donald R. Morris (Introduction)

There Will Be an Awful Row At Home About The Zulu War

Paperback

Published January 1, 1987

About the author

Born 11 November, 1924, to S. Fred and Vera D. Morris of New York City. Graduated Horace Mann School for Boys, 1942 and US Naval Academy, 1948. Active naval service from 1942 until 1956; retired as Lieutenant Commander. CIA field officer in Soviet counterespionage from 1956 until 1972 in Berlin, Paris, Kinshasa and Vietnam. Houston resident since 1972; Houston Post foreign affairs columnist from 1972 until 1989, publisher of Donald R. Morris Newsletter from 1989.

Novelist (China Station, Warm Bodies.) and historian (The Washing of the Spears). In addition to two novels, he wrote columns and articles for the Houston Post, Atlantic Monthly, American Heritage, Proceedings, and the Encyclopedia Britannica, among others. Passed away due to complications from heart disease.