The Zulu War 1879 by Lloyd, Alan ( First Edition1973 )

London: Hart-Davis MacGibbon, 1974) 0246105607. 8vo; original purple boards, lettered in gilt on spine; pictorial dustwrapper; endpaper map; pp. 173 + (i), incl index; illustrations; battle plans. Dustwrapper sunned on spine panel and somewhat foxed; light bump to bottom fore-corners; trace of silverfish nibble to bottom edges of boards. Good condition. "Alan Lloyd's highly readable, fully illustrated account throws vivid light on the Zulu people and the main personalities of the war: Sir Bartle Frere, British High Commissioner; Chelmsford and Wolseley, British generals, and Cetshwayo himself, a man 'as far removed from a savage as the sun is from the moon'." .