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Rorke's Drift By Those Who Were There - Volume I (Hardcover)
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Rorke's Drift By Those Who Were There - Volume I (Hardcover)
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The great host came steadily on, spreading out spreading out -
spreading out till they seemed like a giant pair of nut-crackers
opening round the little nut of Rorke's Drift. - Surgeon Major
James Henry Reynolds V.C., Army Medical Department On 22 January
1879, during the final hour of the Battle of iSandlwana - one of
the greatest disasters ever to befall British troops during the
Victorian era - a very different story was about to unfold a few
miles away at the mission station of Rorke's Drift. When a Zulu
force of more than 3,000 warriors turned their attention to the
small outpost, defended by around 150 British and Imperial troops,
the odds of the British surviving were staggeringly low. The
British victory that ensued, therefore, would go down as one of the
most heroic actions of all time, and has enraptured military
history enthusiasts for decades. Featuring a wide range of
first-hand accounts and testimonies from those present during the
Battle of Rorke's Drift, Rorke's Drift By Those Who Were There is a
remarkable work of Anglo-Zulu military history by those who know
the topic best, Lee Stevenson and Ian Knight. This updated edition
of the classic work of the same name includes even more
first-person accounts from the combatants on both the British and
Zulu sides. Providing personal, microscopic accounts of events,
while at the same time presenting a clear overview of the battle in
its entirety, readers will gain an impressive, unique breadth of
knowledge about one of the most awe-inspiring battles in British
history.
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