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Free Download Adrian Greaves, "Who’s Who in the Anglo Zulu War 1879: Volume 2 – Colonials and Zulus"
English | ISBN: 1844155269 | 2007 | 272 pages | EPUB | 1267 KB
The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 has a character that inspires and fascinates readers and increasing numbers of visitors to South Africa. The two volume biographical dictionary of the participants is a unique venture and this second volume reveals much about the formidable Zulu nation which so nearly humbled the mighty British Empire which had provoked the conflict.

Free Download Adrian Greaves, "Who’s Who in the Anglo Zulu War 1879: Volume 1 – The British"
English | ISBN: 1844154793 | 2007 | 256 pages | EPUB | 1370 KB
The Anglo Zulu War continues to attract phenomenal interest. What was meant to be a quick punitive expedition led by Lord Chelmsford turned into a watershed for British Colonial power. The ignominious defeat at Iswandhlwana was a terrible blow to British military pride but the heroic stand at Rourke’s Drift, while a minor event by comparison, allowed the powers-that-be to salvage some honor.

Free Download Witnesses at Isandlwana: 22 January 1879 by Neil Thornton, Michael Denigan
English | March 31, 2024 | ISBN: 1781559058 | 528 pages | PDF | 19 Mb
In a comprehensive collection of firsthand testimonies, this book unveils the untold perspectives of British soldiers, colonial forces, civilians, and Zulu warriors to offer insight into the pivotal clash that reshaped history on January 22, 1879.

Free Download Joshua Duke, "Recollections of the Kabul Campaign: 1879 & 1880"
English | 2017 | ISBN: 1017126925, 1017117594 | EPUB | pages: 464 | 3.5 mb
Recollections of the Kabul Campaign, 1879 & 1880 is a firsthand account of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-80). The author, Joshua Duke, was a British officer in the Bengal Medical Service, attached to "our native army in India." The war began in Nov. 1878 when Great Britain, fearful of what it saw as growing Russian influence in Afghanistan, invaded the country from British India.

Free Download An Illustrated Tour of the 1879 Anglo-Zulu Battlefields
by Adrian Greaves;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1399040685 | 210 pages | True PDF EPUB | 119.75 MB

Free Download Charles Darwin, "The Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 27, 1879"
English | ISBN: 1108493750 | 2020 | 298 pages | PDF | 24 MB
This volume is part of the definitive edition of letters written by and to Charles Darwin, the most celebrated naturalist of the nineteenth century. Notes and appendixes put these fascinating and wide-ranging letters in context, making the letters accessible to both scholars and general readers. Darwin depended on correspondence to collect data from all over the world, and to discuss his emerging ideas with scientific colleagues, many of whom he never met in person. The letters are published chronologically: volume 27 includes letters from 1879, the year in which Darwin completed his manuscript on movement in plants. He also researched and published a biography of his grandfather Erasmus. The Darwins spent most of August on holiday in the Lake District. In October, Darwin’s youngest son, Horace, became officially engaged to Ida Farrer, after some initial resistance from her father, who, although an admirer of Charles Darwin, thought Horace a poor prospect for his daughter.

Free Download Ian Knight, "The Zulu War, 1879"
English | 2003 | pages: 93 | ISBN: 1841766127 | PDF | 26,6 mb
The Zulu War of 1879 remains one of the best known British colonial wars and included two battles whose names reverberate through history. At Isandlwana the Zulus inflicted a crushing defeat on the British; the gallant British defence at Rorke’s Drift followed and re-established British prestige. Yet as this book shows, there was more to the war than this. Six months of brutal fighting followed, until the Zulu kingdom was broken up, its king imprisoned and the whole structure of the Zulu state destroyed. Years of internecine strife followed, until the British finally annexed Zululand as a colonial possession.

Free Download Adam Hook, "Isandlwana 1879: The great Zulu victory"
English | 2002 | pages: 96 | ISBN: 1841765112, 0275986365 | PDF | 37,9 mb
Osprey’s study of the battle of Isandlwana, which wasfought on 22 January 1879 and was the greatest defeat suffered by the British Army during the Zulu War (1879). A Zulu army of 24,000 warriors had moved undetected to within striking distance of the British camp in the shadow of Isandlwana Mountain. From the start the 1,700 defenders underestimated the danger descending upon them. They were swept aside with horrifying speed and the final stage of the battle consisted of desperate hand-to-hand fighting amid the British camp. Over 1,300 men were killed; scarcely 60 Europeans survived. Ian Knight employs new archaeological and historical research to provide a completely new interpretation of the course of the battle.