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Title: Zulu Victory: The Epic of Isandlwana and the Cover-Up by Ron Lock, Peter Quantrill ISBN: 1-85367-505-9 Publisher: Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal Pub. Date: September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Usual old Brit bashing
Comment: As usual, books like this are only interested in a spot of Brit bashing. They ignore the fact that the whole Zulu war was initiated against the expressed wishes of the British government as shown in cabinet minutes and from cables sent to Bartle Frere by Hicks Beach. It was Bartle Frere's war acting on his own. At Isandlwhana British troops were a minority in the force also composed of colonials and Natal Bantus who volunteered to help bring down the Zulus. Yes, fellow Africans wanted the Zulus defeated. As for being outgeneralled and out thought, the same Zulu impies under the same commanders weren't able to repeat the trick at Kambula or the Ineyazane river, where Chelmsfords approach was vindicated. As for a Zulu victory, Cetshwayo didn't seem to think it was, on hearing the Zulu casualty figures ("An assegai has been thrust into the belly of the nation. There are not enough tears to mourn for the dead"). But we can't ruin a good story with too many facts, can we. File it under fiction. It'd be right at home there.
Rating: 4
Summary: Slightly Flawed
Comment: When the British marched to disaster against the Zulu at Isandlwana this volume claims they were 'outgunned and outfought and outmanuevered' but the reality is slightly different. This book intends to expose the 'cover-up' of the British disasters in the Zulu war and the author tries to prove that their was indeed some massive cover up. Of course the cover up couldn't have been very thorough since everyone with any knowledge of British colonial history knows the the defeat by the Zulus. This book claims the british were crushed despite their superior weaponry but this is a misnomer. The British were defeated due to their lesser then brilliant officers who strong the better trained and better armed british contingent out in a long line, allowing the british regulars to be butchered by the vastly more numerous Zulus. The author claims that it was a failure of British arms. But Isandlwana is no more a failure of British arms then the defeat the British suffered in Afghanistan or at Yorktown. Rather, the reality is that the gigantic Zulu army went on to lay siege to Rorkes Drift where a handful of similar British soldiers held off thousands of Zulu for more then a day. Isandlwana was a freak accident and this book labors too hard to show that the British covered up a defeat.
Rating: 5
Summary: Battle of Isandlwana
Comment: I have been very interested in African history ever since I took a course on West African colonial history in college, and in the Zulu wars specifically when I read "Washing of the Spears" many years ago. These intrepid warriors faced the British imperialists in defense of their homeland, and occasionally prevailed in battle. This book details the Zulu victory over the British at Isandlwana, a very black day for the Empire of Queen Victoria. The reader receives all of the reasons why the Zulus prevailed, among other reasons the astute planning of their leaders, and the almost casual dismissal of the ability of the natives on the part of the English leaders. Once the tragedy took place, there was a concerted effort by the authorities to transfer blame from the actual commander, Lord Chelmsford, to one of the "colonial" officers. The authors categorically refute the baseless allegations, and show us exactly how Chelmsford was derelict in his duty to his troops, while not taking anything away from the brilliance of the Zulu planning. This is an interesting book, and well worth reading for those whose interest, as mine, centers on the cololnal conquest of the indigenous peoples of Africa.
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Title: The Washing of the Spears: A History of the Rise of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and Its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879 by Donald R. Morris, Mangosuthu Chief Buthelezi ISBN: 0306808668 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Rorke's Drift 1879: 'Pinned Like Rats in a Hole' (Campaign Series, No 41) by Ian Knight ISBN: 1855325063 Publisher: Osprey Pub Co Pub. Date: January, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Isandlwana 1879: The Great Zulu Victory (Campaign 111) by Ian Knight, Adam Hook ISBN: 1841765112 Publisher: Osprey Pub Co Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Anatomy of the Zulu Army: From Shaka to Cetshwayo, 1818-1879 (Greenhill Military Paperbacks) by Ian Knight ISBN: 1853673633 Publisher: Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title:Zulu Wars Trilogy ASIN: B0000C506S Publisher: Good Times Home Vide Pub. Date: 25 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $17.96 |
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