THE LAST ZULU KING

THE LAST ZULU KING
The Life and Death of Cetshwayo

C.T. Binns. Hardback, with dust-jakect. Very Good condition. Published 1962

This is the story-told for the first time--of Cetshwayo, last of the great Zulu kings. Born in the military empire of his uncle, the tyrant Shaka, he grew to manhood during a period of bitter territoriai disputes with the Boers. These disputes he inherited after being crowned king. The British annexed the Transvaal in 1877; but Cetshwayo was no more prepared to give way to them than he had been to the Boers. In 1879 his army of magnificent warriors inflicted on the Britisn Army one of the most humiliating defeats in their records..at the tragic Battle of Isanchiwana. No efforts were spared to bring him down, and finally Cetshwayo's army was crushed and he himself was captured.

Later he was brought to London to plead his cause, and he appeared in person before Queen Victoria. He was restored to his throne-but under impossible conditions. His inevitable failure to fulfil them resulted in bloody disaster, flight and death-and in the effective overthrow of the warlike Zulu nation.

C. T. Binns' powerful narrative is based on the account of eye-witnesses and on original documents. Much help was given by the Zulus themselves who took him into their confidence, even showing him Cetshwayo's lonely mountain grave, which is still jealously guarded, and which no white man has seen for forty years.

The author will earn the gratitude of the student of African history by his presentation of some as yet unrecorded incidents, and by his research into a period, our knowledge of which has been slight and often distorted by unreliable accounts. But the controversial story of Cetshwayo, the hero of those last great years in the history of a nation, is also a moving personal tragedy in the classical mould.

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