ZULU WARRIORS: THE BATTLE FOR THE SOUTH AFRICAN FRONTIER. by Laband, John - 2014

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. 345 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w maps, photographs, reproductions. "The Anglo-Zulu War, the most famous of Britain's late nineteenth-century campaigns of colonial conquest, was not fought in isolation. Along with the two Anglo-Pedi Wars, the Ninth Cape Frontier War and the Northern Border War, it was one in a brutal series of interconnected and overlapping wars which the British waged between 1877-1879 to crush and disarm the remaining independent black states of South Africa. For the first time, this book weaves the story of this cluster of conflicts into a single, connected whole. Deftly fusing the widely differing African and European perspectives on events, John Laband probes the fateful decisions taken by statesmen and military commanders, analyses military operations and their destructive impact on combatants and civilians alike, and explores why so many Africans chose to fight as auxiliaries and levies alongside the British instead of against them. Highlighting the starkly contrasting military cultures of the antagonists, he shows how prevailing notions of military honour and manhood inspired and sustained African warriors in the doomed defence of their homes and independence." Book is Fine. Dust jacket has very minor wrinkles at top of flap-folds.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.