The Zulu War Through Contemporary Eyes

March slowly, attack at dawn and eat up the red soldiers.

King Cetewayo, Battle of Isandhlwana 1879 Written in 1894, just 15 years after the war, this is James Grant's excellent military history of the Zulu War of 1879.

From the British disaster at Isandhlwana to face-saving at Rorke's Drift and the final humiliation o