Author: Gon, Philip.
Title: The Road to Isandlwana. The Years of an Imperial Battalion.
Description: Donker. Johannesburg 1979. Red cloth boards. 288pp. Illustrated b/w photos. plates, maps. 8vo. Eps mildly tanned else a VG+ copy in G-VG dustwrapper (edges and spine rubbed, worn at head and tail of spine, scarred to rear, but no loss or tears). ISBN: 0949937657 emdenCovers the tour of duty of the 1/24th imperial battalion. Includes accounts of the Black Flag rebellion in Kimberley, a Griqua uprising, & Colonel Rowlands campaign against Sekhukhune, a full account of the 9th Frontier War and the battle of Centane. The disastrous encounter at Isandlwana is interpreted from the point of view of individual soldiers whose progress has been carefully traced until their confrontation with the Zulu army.

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