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Zulu!: The Battle for Rorke's Drift 1879

Categorie	Algemeen Militaria
Boeknummer	#374525-XA49
Titel	Zulu!: The Battle for Rorke's Drift 1879
Auteur	Yorke, Edmund
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Stroud : Tempus Publishing Limited
Jaar van uitgave	2005
ISBN10	0752435027
ISBN13	9780752435022
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, some illustrations (including photographs) in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Fought 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... (Lees verder) the British Empire in South Africa rested with the tiny garrison of Rorke's Drift.
Pagina's	239
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 10,00

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