Rorke's Drift and Isandlwana

This volume recounts the battles of Isandlwana and Rorke''s Drift, exploring how they were fought, how they have been remembered, and what they mean for us today.The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879, the first major battle in the Anglo-Zulu war, witnessed the worst single day''s loss of British troops between the battle of Waterloo in 1815 and the opening campaignns of the First World War i...