The 1879 Zulu War: Through the Eyes of the Illustrated London News - Rilegato

Lock, Ron; Quantrill, Peter

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ISBN 10: 0620308990 ISBN 13: 9780620308991

Casa editrice: 30 Degrees South Pub Pty Ltd, 2003

Riassunto

The fascination of the Anglo–Zulu War of 1879 continues unabated. It was impassioned almost 40 years ago by the film Zulu, starring Stanley Baker and a yet-to-be-discovered Michael Caine. Zulu has been shown – and continues to be shown – on British television more than any other feature film. In the USA and elsewhere it has become a cult movie. Moreover, it created a near- valanche of books, articles, lectures, documentaries and websites that has come close to being an industry. But the basis of all this activity was, in fact, generated 120 years ago by the weekly magazines of Victorian England such as the Illustrated London News. Every Saturday morning, at the cost of sixpence, the Illustrated London News presented to its readers descriptions of events and bloody battles, brought alive by the magnificent illustrations drawn by the top war artists of the day. Although copies of the original magazines are much sought after and have become collectors’ items, the compilers have painstakingly acquired every issue pertaining to the conflict and, having extracted every report and illustration on the subject, have produced, with an index, and in chronological order, a unique record of the Anglo–Zulu War, albeit through the eyes of a colonial Victorian age. This compilation of the Illustrated London News, with a foreword by David Rattray of Fugitive’s Drift, has been compiled by the co-authors of the acclaimed Zulu Victory: The Epic of Isandlwana and the Cover-Up.

Ron Lock has spent much of his life in Africa, including 13 years in Kenya and Tanzania (Tanganyika). He served with the mounted troops of the Royal Military Police and the Rift Valley Troop of the Kenya Police. He is the author of Blood on the Painted Mountain – Hlobane and Kambula, 1879 (Greenhill Books) and numerous articles on military history, which have been published in the UK and USA. He is also a registered guide to Anglo–Zulu War and Anglo–Boer War battlefields. Peter Quantrill was born in Simla, India, where he spent much of his youth. He was commissioned from Sandhurst into the 1st Battalion 7th Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Gurkha Rifles (now 2nd Battalion Royal Gurkha Rifles). He served in India, Nepal, Malaya, Singapore, Hong Kong and Borneo before settling with his family in South Africa. A keen student of military history, his special interest lies in the Anglo–Zulu War.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: 30 Degrees South Pub Pty Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0620308990
• ISBN 13: 9780620308991
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 314