Facebook X YouTube Instagram Pinterest NetGalley
Google Books previews are unavailable because you have chosen to turn off third party cookies for enhanced content. Visit our cookies page to review your cookie settings.

Dead Was Everything (Hardback)

Studies in the Anglo-Zulu War

Military > Frontline Books > Frontline: 17th-19th Centuries Military > Pre-WWI > Anglo-Zulu Wars

By Keith Smith
Frontline Books
Pages: 292
ISBN: 9781848327313
Published: 31st May 2014
Last Released: 22nd May 2014

in_stock

£17.50 was £25.00

You save £7.50 (30%)


You'll be £17.50 closer to your next £10.00 credit when you purchase Dead Was Everything. What's this?
+£4.50 UK Delivery or free UK delivery if order is over £40
(click here for international delivery rates)

Order within the next 5 hours, 46 minutes to get your order processed the next working day!

Need a currency converter? Check XE.com for live rates

Other formats available - Buy the Hardback and get the eBook for free! Price
Dead Was Everything ePub (35.0 MB) Add to Basket £4.99


The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 still intrigues both scholars and enthusiasts alike more than 130 years after it was fought. Its story contains tragedy, high drama and the heavy loss of human life; it involved five major battles and two lesser fights; and led to the snuffing out of the direct male Napoleonic line of France. And all this in less than one year.

Reflecting on several years' research, Keith Smith presents a series of essays which explore hitherto unanswered questions and offer fresh insights into the key battles and protagonists of this epic conflict. He presents some surprising conclusions which differ, often radically, from more orthodox views.

He also sets out to reveal the characters of the men – of both sides – who might otherwise have been simply names on a page. They are not: they lived, loved, fought and died. Some were heroes while others were less than that. Most were ordinary men who chose a military career and did their best as far as they were able. White or black, British or colonial, they are all brought to life and their unique stories told. This is an important contribution to our understanding of this famous war and the men who fought in it.

This is an important contribution to our understanding of this famous war and the men who fought in it.

Classic Arms & Militaria

[This book] will be of considerable interest to students of this war. It is encouraging to see books of this calibre - in effect, an extremely thorough and painstaking examination of 'what actually happened'.

Miniature Wargames with Battlegames

About Keith Smith

KEITH SMITH is a retired computer consultant with a long-standing interest in South African military history and has a Masters degree in the subject. He has published two books on the Cape Frontier Wars: Harry Smith’s Last Throw and The Wedding Feast War, also published by Frontline Books. Born in England, Keith now lives in northern N.S.W., Australia.

More titles by Keith Smith

Customers who bought this title also bought...

Other titles in Frontline Books...