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Rorke's Drift (Wordsworth Military Library)

paperback – January 1, 1997
by Glover, Michael
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ISBN-13: 9781853266737 ISBN-10: 1853266736
Publisher
Brand: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Binding
paperback
Published
January 1, 1997
Weight
0.4 lbs
Dimensions
22.20×1.30×13.30 cm

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Rorke's Drift (Wordsworth Military Library) by Glover, Michael. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781853266737.

The defence of Rorkes Drift has gone down in history as one of the grandest heroic actions of British colonial wars. About a hundred men defeated an enemy force 30 or 40 times their size, and 11 of the defenders were awarded Britains highest military decoration, the Victoria Cross. The action has been immortalized in the film "Zulu". Michael Glover shows how this undoubted act of bravery was exploited for political ends, and why an event of little military consequence found its way into the "National Hagiography of Battles".