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Donald Robert Morris (November 11, 1924 – December 4/5, 2002) was an American naval officer, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, novelist, military historian and foreign affairs writer.
The Washing of the Spears is a 1965 book by Donald R. Morris about the "Zulu Nation under Shaka" and the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. It chronicles the rise of the Zulu nation under Shaka Zulu in the early 19th century and Chief Cetshwayo ’s inevitable war with the British in 1879 as the colony of Natal pushed at the Zulu nation's borders.
The Washing of the Spears: A History of the Rise of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and Its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879. Donald R. Morris. Pimlico, 1994 - History - 655 pages. In 1879, armed...
Donald Robert Morris (November 11, 1924 – December 4/5, 2002) was an American naval officer, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, novelist, military historian and foreign affairs writer. He joined the navy in 1942 and after World War Two studied electrical engineering at the United States...
Donald R. Morris’s The Washing of the Spears details the saga of the Zulu Kingdom in 19th Century South Africa. A loose confederation of Bantu clans, the Zulu didn’t really exist until the formidable King Shaka welded them into a formidable military empire.
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Of all the many books written about the Anglo-Zulu War, the most famous remains Donald R. Morris’ The Washing of the Spears. First published in 1966, it has stayed in print in one form or another ever since, and remains a remarkable achievement – a literate history of power and eloquence which has profoundly affected the historiography of ...
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Donald R. Morris. Publisher, Donald R. Morris Newsletter, Houston, Texas. Author of The Washing of the Spears: A History of the Rise of the Zulu Nation Under Shaka and Its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879. Shaka was a Zulu chief (1816–28), founder of Southern Africa’s Zulu Empire.
