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  • WHO'S WHO IN THE ZULU WAR, 1879: THE COLONIALS AND THE ZULUS
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    WHO'S WHO IN THE ZULU WAR, 1879: THE COLONIALS AND THE ZULUS
    ADRIAN GREAVES / IAN KNIGHT
    The Anglo Zulu War continues to attract phenomenal interest. What was meant to be a quick punitive expedition led by Lord Chelmsford turned into a watershed for British Colonial power. The ignominious defeat at Iswandhlwana was a terrible blow to British military pride but the heroic stand at Rourkes Drift, while a minor event by comparison, allowed the powers-that-be to salvag...

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  • THE CURLING LETTERS OF THE ZULU WAR
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    THE CURLING LETTERS OF THE ZULU WAR
    ADRIAN GREAVES / BRIAN BEST
    A firsthand account of the battle of Isandlwana from one of the only survivors of the Zulu attack, Lieutenant Henry Curling of the Royal Artillery. The crushing defeat suffered by the British Army by the Zulus at Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 is by any standards a gripping and shocking story. The discovery of a complete set of diaries written by a young Royal Artillery officer ...

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  • FORGOTTEN BATTLES OF THE ZULU WAR
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    FORGOTTEN BATTLES OF THE ZULU WAR
    ADRIAN GREAVES
    Adrian Greaves uses his exceptional knowledge of the Anglo-Zulu War to look beyond the two best known battles of Isandlwana and the iconic action at Rorkes Drift to other fiercely fought battles.He covers little recorded engagements and battles such as Nyezane which was fought on the same day as the slaughter of Imperial troops at Isandlwana but has been eclipsed by it. Like th...

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  • ISANDLWANA
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    ISANDLWANA
    ADRIAN GREAVES
    The historian and founder of the Anglo-Zulu War Historical Society presents his groundbreaking account of the Battle of Isandlwana. The story of the British Army’s defeat at Iswandlwana in 1879 has been much written about, but never with the detail and insight revealed by the research of Dr. Adrian Greaves. In reconstructing the dramatic and fateful events, Greaves draws on new...

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  • WHO'S WHO IN THE ZULU WAR, 1879: THE BRITISH
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    WHO'S WHO IN THE ZULU WAR, 1879: THE BRITISH
    ADRIAN GREAVES / IAN KNIGHT
    The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 has a character that inspires and fascinates readers and increasing numbers of visitors to South Africa. The two volume biographical dictionary of the participants is a unique venture and this second volume reveals much about the formidable Zulu nation which so nearly humbled the mighty British Empire which had provoked the conflict.Thanks to the deep...

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  • ALBERT SPEER—ESCAPING THE GALLOWS
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    ALBERT SPEER—ESCAPING THE GALLOWS
    ADRIAN GREAVES
    At the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, Albert Speer, Hitler’s one-time number two, persuaded the judges that he ‘knew nothing’ of the Holocaust and related atrocities. Narrowly escaping execution, he was sentenced to twenty years in Spandau Prison, Berlin. In 1961, the newly commissioned author, as the British Army Spandau Guard Commander, was befriended by Speer, who taught him...

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  • RORKE'S DRIFT REVISITED
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    RORKE'S DRIFT REVISITED
    ADRIAN GREAVES
    Offers a thoroughly revised account of the 1879 battle, challenging long-held myths with new research and evidence. Dr Adrian Greaves’ is widely acknowledged as a leading expert on the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 and his previous account of Rorke’s Drift has become a standard work on that battle. However, by his own admission, it is hopelessly out of date as are other existing accou...

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  • AN ILLUSTRATED TOUR OF THE 1879 ANGLO-ZULU BATTLEFIELDS
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    AN ILLUSTRATED TOUR OF THE 1879 ANGLO-ZULU BATTLEFIELDS
    ADRIAN GREAVES
    Greaves' work offers detailed maps and firsthand insight into the Anglo-Zulu War, providing necessary insight and overviews of the conflict's pivotal battles like Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift. In 1878 southern Africa’s two most senior figures, army commander General Lord Chelmsford and the High Commissioner Sir Henry Bartle-Frere created a false threat of a Zulu invasion of Bri...

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