This compelling new biography uses primary sources and original research to uncover the truth about this legendary figure. T.E. Lawrence is one of the most enigmatic characters in British history. At the outbreak of the First World War he was working as an archaeologist in the Middle East. With no military training at all and a strong distrust of politicians and senior officers alike, he succeeded in a task where they had failed. Not only did he unite the Arab nation—which was at perpetual war with itself—but he also led them to victory against the once great Ottoman Empire. The truth about this mysterious personality is more compelling than fiction.

Lawrence of Arabia: Mirage of a Desert War

Biographies & Memoirs

Greaves, Adrian

Historical

Weidenfeld Nicolson Ltd

The battle has become legendary: 85 British soldiers, in a small outpost, holding off six full-scale Zulu attacks with only 27 casualties. But a brand new look at this infamous clash reveals that several things about the myth just don't add up. While there was certainly incredible courage, there was also some astonishing cowardice, and increasing evidence reveals that the legend of Rorke's Drift was created to divert attention from earlier mistakes that led to the slaughter at Islandlwana.

Rorke's Drift

History

Africa

Cassell

The battle has become legendary: 85 British soldiers, in a small outpost, holding off six full-scale Zulu attacks with only 27 casualties. But a brand new look at this infamous clash reveals that several things about the myth just don’t add up. While there was certainly incredible courage, there was also some astonishing cowardice, and increasing evidence reveals that the legend of Rorke’s Drift was created to divert attention from earlier mistakes that led to the slaughter at Islandlwana.

Rorke's Drift (CASSELL MILITARY PAPERBACKS)

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Phoenix

In the years since the release of the film ‘Zulu’, the Zulu War of 1879 has become one of the world's most famous military campaigns. One of the most dramatic events of the war was the complete annihilation of the British encampment at Isandlhwana by a Zulu army on January 22, 1879. With interest in the Zulu War at an all-time high, the recent discovery of the complete diaries of a Royal Artillery officer who was the sole survivor of his battery at Isandlhwana is a major find. This important diary has been edited with background notes and linking narrative by Adrian Greaves, a leading member of the Anglo-Zulu War Historical Society. A special Foreword has been written by noted Colonial historian Dr. David Rattray.

Curling Diaries of the Zulu War: There was Awful Slaughter

Best, Brian

Europe

Pen_and_Sword

David Rattray is known to many thousands of enthusiasts for his emotional and evocative lectures, he also owns a top battlefield-touring lodge Fugitive Drift, close to Iswandlwana and Rorke's Drift. This is David Rattray's first publication (his cassettes and videos have sold thousands) . No one is better qualified to explain the causes of this strange colonial war when British Imperial might was initially humiliated in a ghastly slaughter. Pride was somewhat salvaged by the heroic defense of Rorke's Drift and thereafter the Zulus were doomed. Today the battlefields are frequently visited and this attractive book is the perfect companion, being both authoritative, well illustrated and highly accessible.

David Rattray's Guide Book to the Anglo-Zulu War Battlefields

RATTRAY, DAVID

Pen and Sword Military

Rorke's Drift Revisited: A New Account of the Most Famous Battle of the Anglo-Zulu War

At the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, Albert Speer, Hitler's one-time number two, persuaded the judges that he 'knew nothing' of the Holocaust and related atrocities. Narrowly escaping execution, he was sentenced to twenty years in Spandau Prison, Berlin.In 1961, the newly commissioned author, as the British Army Spandau Guard Commander, was befriended by Speer, who taught him German. Adrian Greaves' record of his conversations with Speer over a three year period make for fascinating reading. While the top Nazi admitted to Greaves his secret part in war crimes, after his 1966 release he determinedly denied any wrongdoing and became an intriguing and popular figure at home and abroad. Following Speer's death in 1981 evidence emerged of his complicity in Hitler's and the Nazi's atrocities.In this uniquely revealing book the author skilfully blends his own personal experiences and relationship with Speer with a succinct history of the Nazi movement and the horrors of the 1930s and 1940s. In so doing new light is thrown on the character of one of the 20th century's most notorious characters.

Albert Speer – Escaping the Gallows: Secret Conversations with Hitler's Top Nazi

Leaders & Notable People

In 1878 southern Africa's two most senior figures, army commander General Lord Chelmsford and the High Commissioner Sir Henry Bartle-Frere created a false threat of a Zulu invasion of British Natal. In an astonishing act of over-confidence and without any government permission, Frere and Chelmsford invaded Zululand with five independent columns of troops. Both leaders ignored the serious implications of their two recently failed expeditions against the Zulus' neighboring King Sekhukhune and his Pedi people. The Zulu war lasted only six months and witnessed two separate British invasions of Zululand - one catastrophic, one successful.This book gives the reader a general overview of the Anglo-Zulu war of 1879 with descriptive text, location photographs and illuminating map overviews of the twelve main battles including Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift. The author's unique maps are based on his own lecture notes and 'battlefield map handouts' as a Zulu War battlefield guide for over 25 years. These maps were avidly collected by his many groups and other guides; they clearly explain each battlefield's layout and sequence of events but also included many little known details of each fierce and bloody engagement. At the suggestion of the Anglo Zulu War Historical Society, these maps are now reproduced in book form. While volumes have been written on the subject, this work gives us an even better insight into these grueling and complex battles.

An Illustrated Tour of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu Battlefields

The Zulus at War: The History, Rise, and Fall of the Tribe That Washed Its Spears

By tracing the long and turbulent history of the Zulus from their arrival in South Africa and the establishment of Zululand, The Zulus at War is an important and readable addition to this popular subject area. It describes the violent rise of King Shaka and his colorful successors, under whose leadership the warrior nation built a fearsome fighting reputation without equal among the native tribes of South Africa. Author and Anglo-Zulu war expert Adrian Greaves supplements the historical narrative with an examination of the tactics and weapons employed during the numerous intertribal battles over this period. The text goes on to chronicle the Sekunini War of 1877 and 1878, in which the Zulus would defeat the Boers and prompt the well-documented British intervention. Initially the might of the British Empire was humbled as never before by the shocking Zulu victory at Isandlwana, but the 1879 war ended with the brutal crushing of the Zulu Nation. However, as Greaves reveals, this was by no means the end of the story. The little-known consequences of the division of Zululand, the Boer War, and the 1906 Zulu Rebellion are analyzed in fascinating detail. An added merit of this long-awaited history is written not just by a leading authority but, thanks to the coauthor’s contribution, from the Zulu perspective using completely fresh material, making this unique among most popular histories. This paperback edition also features a new introduction from Greaves.

Mkhize, Xolani

Skyhorse

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Lawrence of Arabia: Mirage of a Desert War

Rorke's Drift

Rorke's Drift (CASSELL MILITARY PAPERBACKS)

Lawrence of Arabia: Mirage of a Desert War

Curling Diaries of the Zulu War: There was Awful Slaughter

David Rattray's Guide Book to the Anglo-Zulu War Battlefields

Rorke's Drift Revisited: A New Account of the Most Famous Battle of the Anglo-Zulu War

Albert Speer – Escaping the Gallows: Secret Conversations with Hitler's Top Nazi

An Illustrated Tour of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu Battlefields

The Zulus at War: The History, Rise, and Fall of the Tribe That Washed Its Spears