The defence of Rorke's 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 Britain's 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".
- ISBN10 0850521823
- ISBN13 9780850521825
- Publish Date 10 April 1975 (first published 1 January 1975)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 19 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Cooper
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 160
- Language English