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Hi Sawubona,
Thank you for the information. Perhaps the title you gave is a sub-title, or the cover title? I have it on p. 43, entry 267, of my AZW bibliography: 267. Gardner, Brian, and Donald Morris. "The Zulu War of 1879 and the South African War, 1880-1881." British Empire 30 (n.d.): 813-840. (I wasn't sure about the date.) Cheers and many thanks, Harold |
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Sawubona
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It's the title on the cover and (oddly) there isn't anything that I can find inside or out with your wording. The contents within, both text and illustrations, are pretty much what one would expect from a publication in 1972-- kind of a "Washing of the Spears Lite",-- although Morris seems a bit harder on Durnford here than he was in TWOTS. Sorry, Coll. The caption of a (THE) photo of Durnford reads: "When Colonel Anthony Durford disobeyed orders at Isandhlwana (sic) and went off on a sortie, the Zulusw annihilated the weak and disorganized force he left behind." I guess that phrase doesn't say much for Puliene's capabilities either. The shortage of ammunition rears its ugly head as expected as well as does the consequences of the gap in the defense perimeter left by the fleeing NNC.
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Coll
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Sawubona
I've been doing my best not to reply to every mention of Col. D. by others in posts, but it's going to take a bit of time to stop being like my usual self, trying to make 'Good Coll' and 'Bad Coll' two different people, put it down to a split personality. Much like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Anyway, I've not read TWOTS for quite a while, though I don't recall him being so direct in the matter you refer to, if anything he was supportive of Durnford. Was this article before or after the book ? I'm wondering what changed his mind, whatever was published first. Coll |
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Galloglas
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Coll,
Try harder. G |
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Galloglas
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I should perhaps have added that no matter how awful Mr Hyde was his handwriting was very probably a great deal better than Dr Jekyll's.
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Coll
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Galloglas
Try harder ? Sounds like the subtitle to the first sequel of 'Die Hard' My sequel would then read - 'Try Hard II - Try Harder'! Coll PS. If there was such a thing as a Durnford emoticon on the forum, I'd have used it too. |
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Galloglas
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See, you can do it.
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Sawubona
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This magazine, "War on the Veldt", came out in 1972 and The Washing of the Spears was published in 1965. TWOTS is in fact much kinder to Durnford and I haven't a clue what, if anything, colored Morris' opinion during those intervening years. Remember that this is just a lightweight military history periodical and the "disobeyed" quote was merely the caption of an illustration.
I read some time ago that Morris was intending to publish his conclusions concerning Addendorf's presence at Rorke's Drift, so I imagine he was still actively researching the AZW for years after he wrote TWOTS. |
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Coll
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Sawubona
There is a chance, now you mention it, the magazine itself might have added the caption under the illustration, rather than Morris himself, perhaps being their interpretation of what the article was saying. I'm not sure about article-writing, but wouldn't its author have to okay the whole thing before print ? If so, then he must then have agreed with its inclusion, but it just doesn't seem like his view when compared with his book, though I don't know enough about him after TWOTS, so his opinion could have changed. Interesting. Coll |
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Sawubona
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Truth be told, Coll, I had the same thought. Morris was, after all, a busy man in 1972 and a Yank at that, so he mightn't have even noticed until it was a "done deal".
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