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THE WASHING OF THE SPEARS
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Author: Donald R Morris
Publisher: Sphere Books
Year published: 1976
Pagination: 670pp, maps
Condition: Well used paperback but useful reference.
The definitive account of the rise of the Zulu nation under the great ruler Shaka and its fall under Cetshwayo in the Zulu war of 1879. For over a century after the European landing at Capetown in the 17th century the Boers advanced unopposed into the vast interior of Africa. It was not until 1824 that the Europeans came face to face with the Zulus the most formidable nation in Black Africa. The author traces not only the record of these wars including Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift, but also looks at the Bantu, Boer and Briton, and the great Zulu Kings who founded and ruled the nation.