• BLOOD RIVER 1838, the Zulu-Boer War and the Great Trek

BLOOD RIVER 1838, the Zulu-Boer War and the Great Trek

: Knight (I.) text & Hook (A.) illus.

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96pp., b/w & colour illus., maps, paperback, Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2024

ISBN: 9781472860750

 

Covers the 1836 Boer-Ndebele conflict, the imbalance in technique and weaponry, the reasons why the British settlers allied themselves with the Boer Trekkers, and why the war was a key turning point in the use of traditional Zulu military techniques.

Ian Knight's books include Companion to the Anglo-Zulu War; Brave Men's Blood: The anatomy of the Zulu army; The National Army Museum Book of the Zulu War and Zulu Rising, the epic story of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift. He is a founder member of the Victorian Military Society and in 2008 was awarded the Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi Award. Ian Knight lives in Sussex.