RORKE'S DRIFT AND ISANDLWANA, great battles

225pp., illus., maps., paperback, Oxford & New York, 2019

Ian Beckett tells the story of two of the great battles of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 and investigates their immediate military significance as well as their continuing cultural impact and legacy, both in Britain and from the Zulu perspective.

Ian Beckett retired as Professor of Military History at the University of Kent in 2015.