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Chargement... Like Lions They Fought: The Zulu War and the Last Black Empire in South Africa (édition 1988)par Robert B. Edgerton (Auteur)
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Fighting spears to bayonets, black against white, the Zulus met the British at Isandlwana in 1879 in the first great battle of perhaps the bloodiest and most dramatic war in African colonial history. The Zulu warriors took on Queen Victoria's "red soldiers" and massacred them. Despite the incredible victory of the astonishingly brave black warriors, when the bloodletting of the ferocious conflict ended, 10,000 Zulus lay dead, and with them, the last great black empire on the African continent. In this beautifully written and riveting account, Robert B. Edgerton examines this epic colonial war for the first time as it was experienced by the Zulus. Drawing on both new and previously overlooked accounts from the African warriors as well as on new British sources, he not only magnificently recreates the combat, but vividly unravels the human and the political story of both sides in a land that later became apartheid South Africa. "Like Lions They Fought" presents a moving and eminently readable chronicle that probes the inner lives of the men in the two great armies, and captures war at its most brutal. -- From publisher's description. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This book is very different than the aforementioned. It is less than half the length of one of Snook's and its scope is the whole of the Zulu wars including its antecedents and the aftermath, other colonial wars in Africa, and a fairly extensive comparison between the British and Zulu warrior cultures.
A quick and not a heavy read. ( )