The books bring the battlefields to life and into perspective and include important insights into both the British Empire and Zulu Kingdom of the time.
IAN KNIGHT acted as a consultant to the programme, and contributed interviews, both about the battle itself and about his own family participation in it. Other contributors include Dr Saul David and a number of British and South African descendants of participants. The film will include some of the most powerful images of the war - and particularly of Isandlwana - that have yet been filmed. It is scheduled for screening in the UK in September 2003, and will be shown on satellite channels around the world.
Anglo-Zulu War Books And Tours
Anglo-Zulu War Books and Tours offer you a fascinating range of books and tours about the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, and the history of the Zulu kingdom.
The books and tours result from collaboration between Gillian Scott-Berning - who has a long association with the heritage of Kwa-Zulu Natal, and was for fifteen years Director of the Local History Museums in Durban - and Ian Knight, who has written over twenty books on the Anglo Zulu war.
Click here to browse and order wide range of exciting books, audio tapes and videos on the Anglo-Zulu war. If you have an interest in the dramatic events of 1879, in the history of King Cetshwayo, or the battles of Isandlwana, Rorke's Drift and Ulundi, this is an ideal place to start your journey into the past.
To order Ian Knight's latest book: 'With his face to the Foe; The Death of the Prince Imperial, Zululand, 1879' - a major new study of the life and tragic death of the 'last of the Bonapartes' - click here.
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In May 2003 a film crew from the BBC's highly-respected and long-running Timewatch historical documentary series visited Isandlwana to film Zulu; The Untold Story. Written and directed by Tim Robinson (whose past TV credits include the acclaimed Napoleon's Lost Army), this film features a re-examination of the battle of Isandlwana, arguing that the importance of the action at Rorke's Drift was exaggerated by the Victorian Establishment to obscure the far greater impact of the earlier defeat. The film will also examine the way Lord Chelmsford's reputation was protected by Queen Victoria herself, and the way the battle is perceived by Zulu people today.
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