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Zulu!

Door Edmund Yorke

Zulu!
CategorieAlgemeen Militaria
Boeknummer#374525
TitelZulu!: The Battle for Rorke's Drift 1879
AuteurYorke, Edmund
BoektypePaperback
UitgeverijStroud : Tempus Publishing Limited
Jaar van uitgave2005
ISBN100752435027
ISBN139780752435022
TaalEngels
BeschrijvingPaperback, some illustrations (including photographs) in b/w, 8vo.
SamenvattingFought on the night of 22/23 January 1879 and immortalised in the film epic Zulu, Rorke's Drift represented one of the most glorious, if subsequently controversial episodes in British military history. For twelve desperate hours, outnumbered by over 25-1, barely 140 British soldiers, based at the remote mission station of Rorke's Drift, South Africa, were locked in a ferocious life or death struggle with over 4000 seasoned warriors of the hitherto victorious Zulu Army - the most powerful indigenous African army. Only hours earlier, in the shadow of the ominous Sphinx-like Isandlwana Crag, other elements of this same Zulu force had virtually annihilated a 1700-strong British colonial force - one of the greatest defeats of Queen Victoria's reign. In the wake of this massacre, the survival of the British Empire in South Africa rested with the tiny garrison of Rorke's Drift.
Pagina's239
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