The Last Zulu Warrior
Cape Town, Purnell & Sons (SA) (Pty) Ltd, 1977.
Large square quarto, 240 pages with numerous maps and illustrations (many in colour).
Gilt-pictorial synthetic cloth; covers slightly bumped, rubbed and bowed, with a short split to the foot of the front joint; edges and endpapers slightly marked; a very good copy (internally excellent) with the good dustwrapper (a little worn and torn, with minor loss to the foot of the spine).
Number 355 of 1000 copies (with the date of publication also inscribed in the same hand). 'Few conflicts so compelled the interest of the public as the Zulu War of 1879. The crushing defeat of British forces at Isandhlwana, the dramatic defence of Rorke's Drift and the tragic death of the young Prince Imperial tell the story of a protracted struggle for superiority between the forces of Victorian England and the numerically overwhelming and savage Impis of Cetewayo. This is the story of that last Zulu War. David Clammer, a rising historian and scholar of the period, writes with great knowledge and sympathy for his subject while the reckless courage and sheer ferocity of the battles is brought to the reader through the reproduction of some 50 little known glass lantern slides in colour which were painted during the Zulu War of 1879. Further material was added, including some superb paintings from private collections, Regimental museums and archives. Possibly the most notable illustration in the book - the original is in the Queen's Collection - is Lady Butler's famous painting of the Defence of Rorke's Drift and the sketches which she made in preparation for this work' (dustwrapper blurb).
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