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The Washing Of The Spears
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The Washing Of The Spears

by Donald Morris

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Paperback / ISBN-13: 9780306808661

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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 Zulu War of 1879.