THE GLAMOUR AND TRAGEDY OF THE ZULU WAR

London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1936

8vo, xxi + 348pp. Hardcover binding with gilt lettering to spine. Frontispiece of author and 16 plates, collated and complete.

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."(turnerdonovan.com)

Condition: Good. Sunning and slight shelfwear to spine, light stains and rubbing to boards, light wear to top corner of front board. Previous owner’s signature to front pastedown. Some foxing throughout, and to edges of textblock. Light splitting to gutters between a few pages. Plates are clean. Copy is still well bound.