THE ZULU WAR 1879

Collana della Osprey Publishing dedicata alle principali guerre della storia, con particolare attenzione ai combattimenti e all’impatto sulla società. Ogni volume prende in esame una guerra e fornisce informazioni sull’origine, i combattenti, come vennero svolti i combattimenti e le conseguenze. Ricca iconografia che comprende foto in bianco e nero, riproduzione di dipinti a colori e mappe appositamente realizzate da noti esperti.

The Zulu War of 1879 remains one of the best known British colonial wars and included two battles whose names reverberate through history. At Isandlwana the Zulus inflicted a crushing defeat on the British; the gallant British defence at Rorke's Drift followed and re-established British prestige. Yet as this book shows, there was more to the war than this. Six months of brutal fighting followed, until the Zulu kingdom was broken up, its king imprisoned and the whole structure of the Zulu state destroyed. Years of internecine strife followed, until the British finally annexed Zululand as a colonial possession.