Shaka Zulu

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The unclipped dust wrapper has some very mild edge wear and a small area of loss to the head of the spine so best described as very good condition, it has been covered in clear, removable, protective film. Ritter plays a full-on omniscient narrator, imagining wildly preposterous dialogs and blow-by-blow accounts of even minor childhood fights, most of which are started because young Shaka had a small penis (I am not making this up. I might not have always agreed with his actions but this was, of course, a different time and a different culture and I am not in a position to judge.

Ian Knight charts the development and training of the men that formed the impi which later operated so successfully under King Cetshwayo. The Deviant Prison traces the rise and fall of Eastern's unique "Pennsylvania System" of solitary confinement and explores how and why Eastern's administrators kept the system going, despite great personal cost to themselves.

Unfortunately the descriptions of torture were so graphic that I was unable to finish reading the book. In Zulu Rising Ian Knight shows that the brutality of the battle was the result of an inevitable clash between two aggressive warrior traditions. Not least, they claimed the dominant narrative was almost entirely written from a white perspective in which Black actors were portrayed as little more than pawns. The inspiration for the upcoming original series on Prime Video, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

At the peak of his career, when he was about to give his empire the benefits of western civilisation, Shaka was assasinated by his jealous brothers, and within fifty years his work was undone.Shaka's life and deeds had been handed down by word of mouth from generation to generation, and they are here evoked with a sense of drama and an eye for detail. Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling novel that unfolds layer by astonishing layer and concludes in a brilliant and wonderfully satisfying twist. Trained as a journalist, Morris presents a vivid, lively, and compelling narrative, tracing the rise of Shaka’s Zulu kingdom, the outbreak of war in 1879, and the tragic aftermath of civil war and national disintegration. Reuben, who has Down's syndrome, was trapped in a care home during the pandemic, spiralling deeper into a non-verbal depression. Dr Wylie described his book, Myth of Iron: Shaka in History, as an anti-biography because the material for a trustworthy biography did not exist.