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  • The Anatomy of the Zulu Army

    From Shaka to Cetshwayo, 1818–1879

    by Ian Knight ...
    An in-depth look at the army of Africa's Zulu kingdom leading up to their epic battle against the British army in 1879.Forces of the independent Zulu kingdom inflicted a crushing defeat on British imperial forces at Isandlwana in January, 1879. The Zulu Army was not, however, a professional force, unlike its British counterpart, but was the mobilized manpower of the Zulu state. Ian Knight details ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Brave Men's Blood

    The Epic of the Zulu War, 1879

    by Ian Knight ...
    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 ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Warriors in Scarlet

    The Life and Times of the Last Redcoats

    by Ian Knight ...
    **'Ian Knight combines meticulous research with a depth of knowledge of his subject, and a knack for ferreting out unusual and illuminating details, with, crucially, a true flair for storytelling . . . Highly recommended' Journal of the Victorian Military SocietyIan Knight's Warriors in Scarlet is a comprehensive and stirring history of the Victorian army between 1837 to 1860, from the Battle of ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD

  • The Zulu War 1879

    by Ian Knight ...
    Series series Guide to...
    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 British defence at Rorke's Drift followed and re-established British power. Yet as this book shows, there was more to the war than this. Six months of brutal fighting followed, until the ... Read more

    $13.29 CAD

  • Rorke's Drift By Those Who Were There, Volume 1

    Eyewitness British and Zulu Accounts

    by Lee Stevenson, Ian Knight, Alan Baynham-Jones ...
    "The great host came steadily on, spreading out spreading out - spreading out till they seemed like a giant pair of nut-crackers opening round the little nut of Rorke's Drift." – Surgeon Major James Henry Reynolds V.C., Army Medical Department On 22 January 1879, during the final hour of the Battle of iSandlwana – one of the greatest disasters ever to befall British troops during the Victorian era ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blood River 1838

    The Zulu–Boer War and the Great Trek

    by Ian Knight ...
    Series Book 402 - Campaign
    A myth-shattering study of the first clash between the Zulu kingdom and European interlopers and its dramatic effects on Boer and Zulu alike.By the 1830s, the Zulu kingdom was consolidating its power as the strongest African polity in the south-east, but was under growing pressure from British traders and hunters on the coast, and descendants of the early Dutch settlers at the Cape – the Boers. In ... Read more

    $21.19 CAD

  • British Infantryman vs Mahdist Warrior

    Sudan 1884–98

    by Ian Knight ...
    Series Book 58 - Combat
    In the early 1880s, Britain intervened in independent Egypt and seized control of the Suez Canal.British forces were soon deployed to Egypt's southern colony, the Sudan, where they confronted a determined and capable foe amid some of the world's most inhospitable terrain. In 1881 an Islamic fundamentalist revolt had broken out, led by a religious teacher named Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah, who ... Read more

    $19.89 CAD

  • The New Zealand Wars 1820–72

    by Ian Knight ...
    Series series Men-at-Arms
    Between 1845 and 1872, various groups of Maori were involved in a series of wars of resistance against British settlers.The Maori had a fierce and long-established warrior tradition and subduing them took a lengthy British Army commitment, only surpassed in the Victorian period by that on the North-West Frontier of India. Warfare had been endemic in pre-colonial New Zealand and Maori groups ... Read more

    $12.19 CAD

  • British Infantryman vs Zulu Warrior

    Anglo-Zulu War 1879

    by Ian Knight ...
    Series Book 3 - Combat
    The short but savage Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 pitched well-equipped but complacent British soldiers into combat with the Zulu, one of history's finest fighting forces.The clashes between these two different armies prompted tactical innovation on both sides, as the British and their Zulu opponents sought to find the optimal combination of mobility, protection and firepower. This engrossing study ... Read more

    $19.89 CAD

  • British Infantryman vs Zulu Warrior

    Anglo-Zulu War 1879

    by Ian Knight ...
    Series Book 3 - Combat
    The short but savage Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 pitched well-equipped but complacent British soldiers into combat with the Zulu, one of history's finest fighting forces.The clashes between these two different armies prompted tactical innovation on both sides, as the British and their Zulu opponents sought to find the optimal combination of mobility, protection and firepower. This engrossing study ... Read more

    $19.89 CAD

  • Boer Guerrilla vs British Mounted Soldier

    South Africa 1880–1902

    by Ian Knight ...
    Series Book 26 - Combat
    Waged across an inhospitable terrain which varied from open African savannah to broken mountain country and arid semi-desert, the Anglo-Boer wars of 1880–81 and 1899–1902 pitted the British Army and its allies against the Boers' commandos.The nature of warfare across these campaigns was shaped by the realities of the terrain and by Boer fighting techniques. Independent and individualistic, the ... Read more

    $19.89 CAD

  • Companion to the Anglo-Zulu War

    by Ian Knight ...
    The Anglo-Zulu War was a defining episode in British imperial history, and it is still a subject of intense interest. The Zulu victory at Isandlwana, the heroic British defence of Rorke's Drift and the eventual British triumph are among the most closely researched events of the colonial era. In this historical companion, Ian Knight, one of the foremost authorities on the war and the Zulu kingdom, ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus