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Zulu Rising: The Epic Story of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift by Ian Knight tells of the battle of iSandlwana - bloodiest defeat inflicted on the British Army during the Victorian age; it sent shockwaves around the world, and catapulted the Zulu people into the media spotlight of the day.

In the shadow of an imposing rocky outcrop called iSandlwana on January 1879, a part-time army of African herdsman brought to a halt – for a while at least – more than a century and a half of British Imperial Expansion across Southern Africa.