Brave Men's Blood: The Epic of the Zulu War, 1879

One of the most highly regarded books on the British campaign of the nineteenth-century Anglo-Zulu War fought in southern Africa.

Robust and economically self-reliant, the Zulu Kingdom—created by Shaka kaSenzangakhona—was seen as a threat to British colonialism. In December 1878, the British High Commissioner in South Africa, Sir Henry Bartle Frere, picked a quarrel with the Zulu king, Cetshwayo kaMpande, in the belief that the Zulu army—armed primarily with shields and spears—would soon ...