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Filled with colorful characters, dramatic battles like Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift, and an inexorable narrative momentum, this unsurpassed history details the sixty-year existence of the world's mightiest African empire; from its brutal formation and zenith under the military genius Shaka , through its inevitable collision with white expansionism, to its dissolution under Cetshwayo in the Zulu War of 1879.
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The Washing of the Spears, Donald R. Donald Robert Morris
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- Released
- 1966
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- Subtitle
- A History of the Rise of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Released
- 1966
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 656
- ISBN10
- 0224610589
- ISBN13
- 9780224610582
- Series
- Rating
- 4.25 out of 5
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- Filled with colorful characters, dramatic battles like Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift, and an inexorable narrative momentum, this unsurpassed history details the sixty-year existence of the world's mightiest African empire; from its brutal formation and zenith under the military genius Shaka , through its inevitable collision with white expansionism, to its dissolution under Cetshwayo in the Zulu War of 1879.