The Soul of Battle
by Victor Davis Hanson | 
The Washing of the Spears
by Donald R. Morris | 
A History Of Warfare
by John Keegan |
Carnage and Culture
by Victor Davis Hanson | 
Gunpowder
by Jack Kelly | 
The Boer War
by Thomas Pakenham |
Redcoat
by Richard Holmes |
The Age of Battles
by Russell F. Weigley | 
Prevail: The Inspiring Story of Ethiopia's Victory over Mussolini's Invasion, 1935-1941
by Jeff Pearce | 
Three Empires on the Nile
by Dominic Green | 
The Pursuit of Power
by William H. McNeill | 
Mimi and Toutou's Big Adventure
by Giles Foden | 
Ancient Warfare
by Harry Sidebottom | 
War Made New
by Max Boot | 
Waterloo
by Bernard Cornwell |
The Mask of Command
by John Keegan |
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
by A. T. Mahan |
Warrior Race
by Lawrence James | 
13 Hours
by Mitchell Zuckoff | 
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
by Tony Horwitz |
The battle of Isandlwana was the single most destructive incident in the 150-year history of the British colonization of South Africa. In one bloody day more than 800 British troops, 500 of their allies, and at least 2,000 Zulus were killed in a staggering defeat for the British empire. The consequences of the battle echoed brutally across the following decades as Britain took ruthless revenge on the Zulu people. In Zulu Rising Ian Knight shows that the brutality of the battle was the result of an inevitable clash between two aggressive warrior traditions. For the first time he gives full weight to the Zulu experience and explores the reality of the fighting through the eyes of men who took part on both sides, looking into the human heart of this savage conflict. Based on new research, including previously unpublished material, Zulu oral history, and new archaeological evidence from the battlefield, this is the definitive account of a battle that has shaped the political fortunes of the Zulu people to this day.