num_pages: 655
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 (1787–1828), 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: The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation
titlecomplete: The Washing of the Spears: The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation
genres: Historical, War, South Africa, European History, Nonfiction, World History, Military History, History, Military Fiction, Africa
ratings_count: 955
publisher: Simon and Schuster