The Washing of the Spears

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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]

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