THE STORY OF THE ZULU CAMPAIGN

First edition: xv, 408 pages + 32 pages of publisher's advertisements, folding map, original brown cloth with publisher’s device on the upper cover, titled gilt on the spine, starting to wear at the front hinge, book binder’s ticket on the back pastedown endpaper, uncut top edge, foxing - mainly on the page edges, a good copy.

Professor John Laband in his introduction to the facsimile reprint edition published in 1989 (N & S Press): The Story of the Zulu Campaign by Major Ashe and Capt. the Hon. E.V. Wyatt-Edgell is the cavalryman's history of the Anglo-Zulu War. In informed detail, not to be found elsewhere, it describes the duties and activities of the irregular horse and cavalry during the Zulu campaign. The book also deals, from the professional soldier's viewpoint, with the more mundane but necessary activities of an army on campaign such as patrolling, bringing up supplies, and building forts and depots. This perspective more accurately reflects the daily concerns of the British in Zululand than those narratives which concentrate on the spectacular but infrequent set battle-pieces. This is what gives the book its special significance, and places it apart from other contemporary accounts of the campaign.'