In the original dustsheet. Black cloth binding with gilt title on the spine.

• F.B.A. provides an in-depth photographic presentation of this item to stimulate your feeling and touch. More traditional book descriptions are immediately available.

• A book that Joseph Rudyard Kipling would have been proud of.

• This text includes accounts focusing on the experience of battle, during such pivotal military events such as the Sikh Wars, the Afghan Wars and the Boer War.

Review: Ian Knight has edited a terrific book here.These are the first-hand accounts of the British Imperial soldier fighting the Russians at Alma,Inkerman,Balaclava,facing fanatical Afghans at Kabul,last stands against the Zulu impis.They are all in this wonderfully exciting book.Its brutal and shocking,the attack on the British square at Abu Klea by the awesome Dervishes made my hair stand on end! Buy this book and see how war in the Empire days from the Light Brigade to Mafeking was fought. Stephen Donnison,Lincolnshire.

Ian Knight (born 1956) is a British historian and writer, specialising in Anglo-Zulu and Boers wars. Ian Knight was born in Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, UK. He first studied Afro-Caribbean history at the University of Kent in the United Kingdom, then he majored in the military history of southern Africa and the history of the Zulu nation and the Anglo-Zulu war of 1879 in particular. He published many books on the subject (nearly thirty) and took part in the first archaeological excavations of the battlefield of Isandhlwana in 2000. His best known book is the in-depth study of the Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift campaigns, Zulu Rising. He has occasionally written about other British colonial campaigns, including the New Zealand and Sudan wars. He has advised on museum exhibitions in both the UK and South Africa, and has consulted for British and American television channels, including the BBC, in the production of documentaries. He has catalogued sales of Zulu artefacts for auction houses. In 2019 he narrated a re-enactment of the battle of ISandlwana on the battlefield as part of the 140th anniversary commemoration, in the presence of His Majesty King Goodwill Zwelithini and Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, or for commemorative events.