The Washing of the Spears: A History of the Rise of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and Its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879
of Donald R. Morris, Mangosuthu Buthelezi (Introduction)
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Filled with colorful characters, dramatic battles like Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift, and an inexorable narrative momentum, this unsurpassed history details the sixty-year existence of the world's mightiest African empire; from its brutal formation and zenith under the military genius Shaka , through its inevitable collision with white expansionism, to its dissolution under Cetshwayo in the Zulu War of 1879.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 655 pages
- Publisher Da Capo Press
- Publication Date August 22nd 1998
- First Publication 11/06/65
- Language Not informed
- ISBN 9780306808661
- Edition Not informed
- Category History & Politics
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