1818, south east Africa: on the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, 1500 men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait as the midday sun blazes overhead. Calm in the face of the horde gathering below, they know it’s a good day for dying—but a better one for killing. At the center of their formation a tall, broad-shouldered man surveys his troops. Only at his command will they rise and engage the enemy. He is Shaka, his men are Zulu—the best trained foot soldiers in Africa—and the blood spilled in the coming battle will write the opening chapter of their legend. Following in Shaka's footsteps, the story sweeps across the burned hills of south east Africa's interior, charting the dawn of the Zulu nation through the eyes of the Induna, a battle-scarred captain, and his 11-year-old apprentice. Aflame with conflict and intrigue, nobility and treachery, it tells the story of an unquenchable thirst for revenge and a genius for warfare that forged an empire as powerful and revered as Napoleon's France or Caesar's Rome.
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A sweeping historical epic combining history and myth, the first in a trilogy that tracks the birth and growth of the Zulu empire to its ultimate clash with the British empire in 1879
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'An utterly spellbinding and profoundly insightful work ... it's something of a masterpiece' Sunday Independent.
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Walton Golightly is a freelance writer from Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, on the doorstep of what used to be the Zulu Kingdom.
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