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Harold Raugh


Joined: 25 May 2008
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Dear AMB,

Thank you very much for scouting out a bargain for our fellow RDVC members for the AZW Bibliography. I just checked this book out on the Amazon.ca website you referred to, and see the price offered is a 37% per cent savings over the publisher's price.

That's certainly a silver lining to this book's price saga! Many thanks.

All the best,
Harold
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AMB


Joined: 07 Oct 2005
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Harold,

Ordered my copy from Canada on Monday and got it today. Awesome mailing service!

Your book is superb. And whilst it is a shame that it is not hard cover - you'll appreciate how often I move, so hard cover are always the desired format for me - this should not detract from a superlative piece of work.

You have, most certainly, produced the Mendelssohn of the AZW; the bench mark for all future book references regarding this campaign. For a book collector such as myself, this is an invaluable addition to one's library.

By your extending the book to incorporate so many aspects of Zulu history [and so adding vital background detail] adds to the book's 'must have' status.

Thank you.

AMB

PS. Expensive cover price? Long forgotten. After just reading the first page it is worth every penny!
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Harold Raugh


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Hi AMB,

Thank you very much for your message.

I am pleased to learn you received your copy of the AZW bibliography so quickly, and I am especially delighted by your postiive reaction to it. Thank you very much for your kind words.

I also wish it would have been hardcover, but that was asking a bit too much from this publisher. I also appreciate hardcover books as my own two+ decades' of military peregrinations, from South Korea to Nepal to Ethiopia, many Middle Eastern countries and Berlin and the Balkans, among others, made relocating a personal library a challenging event.

Your laudatory comments validate the long hours put into this project and the contributions of all who shared in it. Coming from you, Andrew, a serving Army officer and eminent AZW book collector, your seal of approval is greatly appreciated!

Thank you very much for your thoughtfulness and continued support.

Best wishes,
Harold
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Chris


Joined: 01 Feb 2007
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Hi Harold ,

Now that you have finished with this monumental work you are probably sick and tired of the subject Smile

However good soldiers never give up or fade away -- so may I ask if you know of a Cartobibliography for the AZW ?

There is one for early Natal done by Christopher Merrett who was a specialist librarian at UNP now UKZN.

I believe copies do occasionally become available and should be in library holdings

Here is a link to the David Rumsey Collection

http://www.davidrumsey.com/help/references


and Imago Mundi the Cartography journal

http://www.jstor.org/pss/1150697
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Harold Raugh


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Hi Chris,

Thank you for your message.

No, I am not tired of AZW studies, and il continue to plod away on various aspects of it. In the meantime, I have put together 300+ pages of an Indian Mutiny bibliography, which will be my third (and last) major bibliography project.

With the information you provided and your own expertise on the topic, perhps you could develop a comprehensive AZW cartobibliography?

Thanks again and good luck with your project.

Cheers,
Harold
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Chris


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Harold Raugh wrote:

Hi Chris,
With the information you provided and your own expertise on the topic, perhps you could develop a comprehensive AZW cartobibliography?
Cheers,
Harold

Hi Harold ,

We do already have a historical military map specialist in SA but she is very busy.

International Cartographic Institution

http://icaci.org/commissions


Chair of this August body

http://www.icahistcarto.org/


I should also ask here -- but as far as I know no work has been done in this field for the AZW ( There are a number of papers for the ABW )

A daunting task -- something beyond my expertise.
No expense account to go travelling around the World visiting map repositories and archives.
Smile


Like to here

ICA CONFERENCE PARIS, FRANCE, 3-8 JULY 2011
http://www.icahistcarto.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&I'd=36&Itemid=43#mce_temp_url#

Damn Damn ; that would have been fun
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Harold Raugh


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Harold Raugh


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Greetings All,

I have just receved the first review of Anglo-Zulu War, 1879, A Selected Bibliography. The review was written by James O. Gump and published in the October 2011 issue of the prestigious Journal of Military History (pp. 1313-1314). It includes:

�Raugh�s exhaustive bibliography of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 is an astonishingly thorough guide to this conflict, for it not only chronicles the aforementioned famous battles but places them into the broadest possible historical context. In this regard, Raugh�s book is an invaluable tool for studying and researching the Anglo-Zulu War. His chapters are both chronological and topical, and identify a rich variety of source materials and hard-to-find publications. For example, Raugh�s guide begins with a general bibliographic overview of the political and economic background to the war. It then proceeds with an outstanding bibliography on the rise of Shaka and the Zulu kingdom. On the war itself, Raugh divides his chapters into the two phases of the conflict and goes on to provide extensive citations on the following: the war�s impact on popular culture; autobiographies, biographies, journals, and letters of the major participants; regimental and unit histories; soldiers� letters published in newspapers; selected illustrations from contemporary periodicals; and a large variety of archival sources, including British and Natalian Parliamentary Papers and personal and unofficial documents from the United kingdom and South Africa. Raugh even includes miscellaneous lists on poetry, films and television, music and dances, and websites. Many of the citations are annotated and all entries are numbered for easy referencing. Overall, this comprehensive bibliography should stand the test of time as the best publication of its kind on the Anglo-Zulu War.�
-James O. Gump, Journal of Military History, October 2011

Thanks, and good reading!
Harold
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Harold

I eventually obtained your book. You definitely have been a very busy man putting it together. A project of this scale would have given me a massive headache for the rest of my life and the next.

It's only once I received a Kindle Reader for Xmas, that I noticed your book was available for it, I think for about � 30 less than the paperback.

A great purchase for my library.

Coll
Harold Raugh


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Hi Coll,

Welcome back to the forum, and thank you for your kind words on my AZW bibliography. I am pleased to learn you were able to acquire a copy, and I hope it helps you with your continued research.

This was a relatively intense 3+ year project, and I am not tired of the topic! I have shifted gears a bit, and I am about 400 pages into an Indian Mutiny bibliography -- then I'll get back to real writing!

Thanks again.

Cheers,
Harold
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peterw


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I am about 400 pages into an Indian Mutiny bibliography

Harold

You must have a strong stomach and a hard heart (plus an endless supply of tissues) to research the Mutiny. There was brutality on both sides but I was most touched by the brutal deaths of the women and children at Cawnpore. Quite how an island the size of Britain conquered and occupied India for as long as it did remains one of the marvels of British history.

Peter
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Sawubona


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To paraphrase Sean Connery in The Man Who Would Be King when asked if he and "Peachy" were gods: " Tell them no, but we're the next best thing-- we're British!". I have to think that swagger and an unshakable faith in one's own superiority can go a long way when building and maintaining an empire. Give that attitude some teeth by way of the technology and production of what was arguably the most industrialized nation of the day and some pretty lofty goals can be achieved, don't you agree?
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The Man Who Would be King - a majestic film and an all-time favourite (but I digress................).

Peter
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