The Washing of the Spears
The Washing of the Spears is a 1965 book by
Chief Cetshwayo’s inevitable war with the British in 1879 as the colony of Natal
pushed at the Zulu nation's borders.
Morris worked on the book during a five-year posting in Berlin. The first edition, published in 1966, was over 600 pages with detailed bibliography. A second edition of the book, titled The Washing of the Spears: The rise and fall of the Zulu Nation, was published in 1998.[2]
Notes
- ISBN 978-0-9584112-3-3.
- ISBN 0306808668.