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  • 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

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Dark Age (1 of 3) [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Red Rising 5

    by Pierce Brown ...
    Narrated by Full Cast, Stewart Crank, Jenna Sharpe, Christopher Tester, Rayner Gabriel, Alex Hill-Knight, Jon Vertullo, Ian Putnam, Jessica Threet, Elena Anderson, Natalie Van Sistine, Jonathan David Bullock ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Red Rising

    Unabridged

    11 hours 24 min

    He broke the chains. Then he broke the world….A decade ago Darrow led a revolution, and laid the foundations for a new world. Now he’s an outlaw.Cast out of the very Republic he founded, with half his fleet destroyed, he wages a rogue war on Mercury. Outnumbered and outgunned, is he still the hero who broke the chains? Or will he become the very evil he fought to destroy?In his darkening shadow, a ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rorke's Drift

    Zulu War

    by Ian Castle, Ian Knight ...
    Series series Battleground South Africa
    The heroic defence of the mission station at Rorke's Drift became the epic action of the Anglo-Zulu War. A small garrison defended this valuable border-post for ten hours and in the process won the northern sector at Ntcombe Drift, Hlobane and Khambula. Essential reading for those who wish to learn the facts rather than the myths of this legendary stand. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $12.99 USD

  • 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

    $18.99 USD

  • 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

    $15.99 USD

  • 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

    $17.99 USD

  • The Fall of Rorke's Drift

    An Alternate History of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879

    by John Laband ...
    For fans of Harry Turtledove, an alternate history novel in which Zulu forces triumph over the British at Rorke's Drift in 1879 and invade Natal.January 1879. The British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom are at war. Lord Carnarvon, Secretary of State for the Colonies, who had successfully brought about federation in Canada in 1867, had believed a similar scheme would work in South Africa. But such ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $10.99 USD