Zulu!: The Battle for Rorke's Drift 1879

by Edmund Yorke

Fought in January 1879 and immortalized in the film epic "Zulu, " Rorke's Drift represented one of the most glorious, if subsequently controversial episodes in British military history. For12 desperate hours, outnumbered by over 25-1, barely 140 British soldiers, based at the remote mission station of Rorke's Drift, South Africa, were locked in a ferocious life or death struggle with over 4,000 seasoned warriors of the hitherto victorious Zulu Armythe...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0752435027
• ISBN13: 9780752435022
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Tempus Publishing, Limited
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.9"