Crossing the Buffalo The Zulu War of 1879

London: Cassell. Very Good. 2006. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Light reading and cover creases, minor shelf wear. ; First paperback edition, first printing with full number line, 2006. Nice tight copy, no names inside. Cover artwork, Incident at Isandlwana by David Cartwright. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; Cassell Military Paperbacks; B&W Illustrations and Maps; 384 pages; A comprehensive and well-researched work giving a blow-by-blow account of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. A story studded with tales of heroism, drama and atrocity on both sides: the Battle of Isandlwana, where the Zulus inflicted on the British the worst defeat a modern army has ever suffered at the hands of men without guns; Rorke's Drift, where a handful of British troops beat off thousands of Zulu warriors and won a record 11 VCs; and Ulundi, where the Zulus were finally crushed in a battle that was to herald some of the most shameful episodes in British Colonial history. .