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** Updated 17 June, 2010

We offer a select list of military history books.

The books by the Boer War Books imprint are all brand new, they were only printed in very small quantities and are offered at less than you may find in used condition.

	The Boiling Cauldron
	Description Utrecht District and the Anglo-Zulu War 1879 HM Jones Shermershill Press, 2006 234 x 156 mm. hardback of xvi + 379 pages, with 16 pages of contemporary maps and sketches and newly prepared maps, as well as detailed footnotes, two Appendices, a Bibliography and three Indexes – Persons, Places and Military Units. This community history provides a comprehensive account of events that ultimately led to the clashes at iSandlwana and Rorke's Drift in January 1879. Here is the history of the area that became known as 'The Disputed Territory' and the complicated relationships between several African polities, Boers and British. As the war between the Zulu and the British was being fought in Natal, ongoing along the Transvaal border to the north was a series of local clashes between neighbours that culminated in the action at Hlobane on 28 March. For the first time with full references, The Boiling Cauldron describes that battle in which the local people out-manoeuvred a force of colonial horsemen, burghers and impressed African levies led by Lt-Col H.E. Wood. Published for the first time are Lt-Col A.W. Durnford's 1878 map of Zululand and the three maps that he prepared for the 1878 Boundary Commission, one of the maps drawn by Capt J. Alleyne for the Zululand Boundary Commission in September 1879, and five contemporary sketches drawn by Maj T. Fraser, RE, when travelling through the area with Wood in September 1881. ISBN: 0955384109 ISBN: 978-0955384103 "a hugely important study of a neglected theatre of the war, and a perceptive re-appraisal of its defining battle. More than that, The Boiling Cauldron is that increasingly rare thing - a thoroughly researched, original and worthwhile contribution to the literature of the Anglo-Zulu War." Ian Knight www.azwrs.com/view.php?book=84 "The subject of this book is both wider and narrower than the subtitle suggests, for it covers the whole history of what became known as ‘the disputed territory’, in the upper Phongolo basin, from over fifty years before the outbreak of the Anglo-Zulu War up until the immediate aftermath of the battle of Hlobane. Its theme is that this disastrous military encounter (from the British point of view) was the result, not just of inept military planning, but of tensions and conflicts which had been developing in the area for many years before.. So many books about the Zulu War focus almost exclusively on Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift that it is a pleasure to welcome one that examines a theatre of the war which has received considerably less scholarly attention. Huw Jones’ thorough research has enabled him to correct or amend the conclusions of those who have previously written on Hlobane, and this book will unquestionably be the standard work on both the battle itself and the events leading up to it for many years to come." John Pinfold Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House "meticulously researched account .. much of his research findings either corrects — or skilfully contests — conclusions drawn by other scholars and historians of the period ... offering instead a sober exposition reminiscent of F. W. D. Jackson’s cool-headed appraisals of Isandlwana.. the crowning achievement of a life’s work." Stephen Coan, Natal Witness www.witness.co.za "a very definitive work and a real asset to my library" Cam Simpson, researcher and writer, Australia
	GBP 45.00