IAN KNIGHT `WITH HIS FACE TO THE FOE` HARDCOVER, FIRST EDITION

IAN KNIGHT "WITH HIS FACE TO THE FOE - The Life and Death of Louis Napoleon, the Prince Imperial, Zululand, 1879" Published: Jonathan Ball, Johannesburg and Cape Town, 2001. Hardcover, fully intact dust jacket, in good condition.

Witten by the acknowledged authority on the Anglo-Zulu War, this is the tragic and dramatic story of the death of the last heir to the Imperial throne of France, killed while fighting with the British in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, and of the scandal and recrimination which followed his death. The Carey court-martial and its effect on the public and the military establishment is discussed in detail and placed in the context of the Victorian era.