The Washing of the Spears by Donald Morris (1973)

ISBN: 9780351174001 / 0351174001 - The Washing of the Spears by Donald Morris. Published by Cardinal Sphere books, 1973. Softcover. Used, Good condition. 670 pp.

Filled with colourful 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 (1787–1828), through its inevitable collision with white expansionism, to its dissolution under Cetshwayo in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.

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