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  • ZULU VICTORY
    RON LOCK / PETER QUANTRILL
    “A densely detailed account of the 1879 Zulu defeat of the British . . . portrays a complex and interesting segment of British/African history.”—Library Journal   The battle of Isandlwana—a great Zulu victory—was one of the worst defeats ever to befall a British Army. At noon on 22 January 1879, a British camp, garrisoned by over 1700 troops, was attacked and overwhelmed by 20,...

    $179.00

  • THE ANGLO ZULU WAR: ISANDLWANA
    RON LOCK
    A concise history of the Battle of Isandlwana, the first encounter of the Anglo-Zulu War in 1879. In 1878, H.M. High Commissioner for Southern Africa and the Lieut. General Commanding H.M. Forces, clandestinely conspired to invade the Zulu Kingdom. Drastically underestimating their foe, the invaders had been vanquished within days of entering the Zulu Kingdom, in one of the gre...

    $249.00

  • HILL OF SQUANDERED VALOUR
    RON LOCK
    "Good focused context" pinpoints the historical significance of the single bloodiest episode in the Second Boer War—from a Zulu warfare expert ( FGS Forum).   Spion Kop, just northeast of Ladysmith, South Africa, was the largest hill in the region, being over 1,400 feet high, and it lay almost exactly at the center of the Boer line. If the British could capture this position an...

    $251.00