# The Washing Of The Spears

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- Book: [The Washing Of The Spears](https://www.bookquiver.com/donald-morris/the-washing-of-the-spears) ([The Washing Of The Spears.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/donald-morris/the-washing-of-the-spears.md))
- Authors: [Donald Morris](https://www.bookquiver.com/donald-morris)
- Publisher: da_capo_press
- ISBN: 978-03-0680-866-1
- Pages: 1
- Published: 1998-08-22
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Filled with colourful 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.