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Peter Ewart
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Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 5:44 pm |
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With the passing of 40 years since "The Washing of the Spears" and the very considerable output of well researched books and journal articles in the UK, RSA & elsewhere during the intervening period, I would think (or hope!) that most of the myths created or perpetuated by that book have been more or less corrected by now - but you never know.
Am I being optimistic in assuming that most of what we learn in future about the AZW will be, more or less, merely "fine-tuning?" I suspect that most of the myths have been debunked by now, although Mike Snook has recently come up with one or two more myth-debunking theories in HCMDB which, for all I know, are spot on. For example, I find his argument in favour of a much later closing of the left & right horns at Isandlwana convincing, otherwise the 24th would surely have been attacked, trapped and defeated from the rear long before the completion of their withdrawal from the outer firing line towards the camp & nek.
The other "myth-debunking" genre, the sort of book by David & mentioned above, is not so much myth-debunking, I feel, as a rather hollow sort of sensation-mongering, which does no good at all for the reputation of any genuine historian who abandons all the accepted tenets of scholarly research & writing, but simply wastes the time (& money?) of the reader and the money (one hopes!) of the publisher.
Peter
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