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Ebony and Scarlet (Hardback)

Poems of the Anglo-Zulu War

Military > Pre-WWI > Anglo-Zulu Wars P&S History > British History

By Harry Turner
Imprint: Pen & Sword Military
Pages: 94
ISBN: 9781473863026
Published: 6th April 2016

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The nineteenth century saw the British army engaged in a series of conflicts around the globe. In almost every continent the redcoats of British soldiers seemed to be in perpetual action against enemies of the Crown. The Anglo-Zulu War, fought in southern Africa in 1879, was one of the bloodiest of these conflicts, and one of the most famous, and it has fascinated historians ever since. But the story has never, until now, been re-told in verse – and that is what Harry Turner does in the sequence of poems he has composed for this memorable volume.
He concentrates on the relationship between the British and the Zulus, on the politics and ambition that gave rise to the war and on the series of bloody battles that followed – in particular at Isandlwana, Rorke's Drift and Ulundi. Graphically he recalls how King Cetshwayo's Zulu warriors, armed mainly with spears, gave the British a mauling before they were finally overcome.
The story has often been told before, but rarely in such an original and evocative way. Harry Turner's work will be an absorbing introduction to the subject for readers who are coming to it for the first time, and it will add a new dimension to the understanding of readers who are familiar with the many more conventional histories of the conflict.

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Military History Society

The author has written a number of books of poems from wars that have been important
elements in British history. This new book collects a fine selection of poems from the Anglo-Zulu War. A charming and evocative selection of poems. Enjoyable and informative.

Firetrench

In this poignant and moving account of the Anglo Zulu War, Harry Turner wonderfully presents the facts as they happened in a style very rarely attempted by historians.

Using clever prose, Turner builds the suspense leading up to the conflict and captures the social attitudes of the time leading to the determination of the British Empire to turn defeat and humiliation early on in the campaign into a victory – a victory that came at a great price. Turner strips away all of the ‘Hollywoodisation’ of the battles to present them as they were – bloody, bitter and desperate.

Michael Kirkby

About Harry Turner

Harry Turner was born in 1935 and served as a Second Lieutenant in the First Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment (The Diehards) from 1953 to 1955.

He was Managing Director of Television South West from 1985 to 1992 and a director of ITN Independent Television News from 1987 to 1992.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and author of ten previous books

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