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All,
I note that Pen & Sword have Keith's latest (due in May 14). Basic details:
Dead Was Everything by Keith Smith.
All Frontline Books
Hardback
304 pages
ISBN: 9781848327313
Published: 31 May 2014
Publisher's blurb:
The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 still intrigues both scholars and enthusiasts alike more than 130 years after it was fought. Its story contains tragedy, high drama and the heavy loss of human life; it involved five major battles and two lesser fights; and led to the snuffing out of the direct male Napoleonic line of France. And all this in less than one year.
Reflecting on several years' research, Keith Smith presents a series of essays which explore hitherto unanswered questions and offer fresh insights into the key battles and protagonists of this epic conflict. He presents some surprising conclusions which differ, often radically, from more orthodox views.
He also sets out to reveal the characters of the men � of both sides � who might otherwise have been simply names on a page. They are not: they lived, loved, fought and died. Some were heroes while others were less than that. Most were ordinary men who chose a military career and did their best as far as they were able. White or black, British or colonial, they are all brought to life and their unique stories told. This is an important contribution to our understanding of this famous war and the men who fought in it.
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Peter Ewart
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Good news, Keith! Hope the experience with the publishers was less traumatic this time! Anyone unfamiliar with Keith's previous Studies in the AZW of a few years back will find this a thought provoking work full of original research.
Alan - on the contrary, the title sounds exactly like something straight out of the Anglo-Zulu War! Extracts from C. de B. Webb's A Zulu Boy's Recollection of the Zulu War have been reproduced in quite a few works now and the expression dead was everything comes from the description by one of the Zulu boys who visited the field four days after the battle of Isandlwana, where they scared themselves with ghoulish experiences. It comes at the end of a long, descriptive sentence about everything left on the field being completely dead. Quite a few accounts have drawn on this article in the years since it first appeared in Natalia and the expression dead was everything has become synonymous with the battlefield in the days following the fight. I think it's a very good piece of work. I'm sure Ian Knight, for example, has used this story by Muziwento more than once. Perhaps the easiest way to find the passage is to have a look at Zulu Rising (p543/4). Or now that all volumes of Natalia are online, it'll be easy to pick up the whole account there if you haven't got it. Happy reading!
Peter
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