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CLEMENTS (W.H.)
The Glamour & Tragedy of the Zulu War.
1st Ed., xxiii+348pp., 18 photos. Bodley Head.
1936
#64306
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Clements arrived in SA towards the conclusion of the campaign & joined the Natal Mounted Police; he became fascinated by the war that he had just missed, visited the battlefields often & "met & conversed for hours on end with men who had fought throughout the Zulu War." He had innumerable discussions over the years with protagonists on both sides: "Consequently I feel I can claim to have been afforded unique opportunities of relating the story... in greater detail & with more regard for strict accuracy than has characterised previous versions..." Raugh (Anglo-Zulu War 1879, A Selected Bibliography) 35: "One of the earliest books on the 1879 Anglo-Zulu War as a whole, this is a somewhat romanticized version of the conflict... [the author] claimed to have discussed the Anglo-Zulu War with John Dunn & Dabulamanzi." Just 8 copies on Library Hub (formerly COPAC). Orig. plum cloth, sp. sunned, dampspotting to sides, sound thus & rare in any state. See illustration on our website.
£145
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