num_pages: 693
description: Filled with colorful characters, dramatic battles like Isandhlwana and Rorke's Drift, and an inexorable narrative momentum, this unsurpassed history details the sixty-year existence of the world's mightiest African empire; from its brutal formation and zenith under the military genius Shaka , through its inevitable collision with white expansionism, to its dissolution under Cetshwayo in the Zulu War of 1879.
language: English
title: The Washing of the Spears
titlecomplete: The Washing of the Spears
genres: Historical, Military Fiction, History, World History, Military History, South Africa, War, European History, Africa, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 955
publisher: Da Capo Press