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“mike snook”

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  • Like Wolves on the Fold

    The Defence of Rorke's Drift

    by Mike Snook ...
    A detailed chronicle of a significant opening battle in the Anglo-Zulu War: "The Zulu attack on Rorke's Drift thrillingly retold" (Richard Holmes).On January 22nd, 1879, the British Army in South Africa was swept aside by the seemingly unstoppable Zulu warriors at the Battle of Isandlwana. Nearby, at a remote outpost on the Buffalo River, a single company of the 24th Regiment and a few dozen ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Can Man Die Better

    The Secrets of Isandlwana Revealed

    by Mike Snook ...
    This chronicle of the first battle in the Anglo-Zulu War is "the most powerful and moving modern account of the great Zulu epic that I have ever read" (Richard Holmes, historian and author of The Age of Wonder ).On January 22, 1879, a massive Zulu host attacked the British Army's 24th Regiment in its encampment at the foot of the mountain of Isandlwana. It was the first major encounter in the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Into the Jaws of Death

    British Military Blunders, 1879–1900

    by Mike Snook ...
    A study of British military defeats and disasters in the late nineteenth century: "An enthralling look at the Victorian army in adversity." — BBC History MagazineBetween the Crimean War and the dawn of the twentieth century, the British Army was almost continuously engaged in one corner of the globe or another, in military operations famously characterized by Kipling as the "savage wars of peace." ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond the Reach of Empire

    Wolseley's Failed Campaign to save Gordon and Khartoum

    by Mike Snook ...
    In the early 1880s the Mahdi unleashed a spectacularly successful jihadist uprising against Egyptian colonial rule in the Sudan. Early in1884 Cairo bowed to British pressure to withdraw. Beyond the Reach of Empire describes how Major General Charles Gordon was despatched to evacuate Khartoum and turn the Sudan over to self-rule. It goes on to explain how and why the mission backfired, and then ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    How Can Man Die Better

    The Secrets of Isandlwana Revealed

    by Lieutenant Colonel Mike Snook ...
    Narrated by Dennis Kleinman ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 58 min

    On January 22, 1879, a massive Zulu host attacked the British Army's 24th Regiment in its encampment at the foot of the mountain of Isandlwana. It was the first major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War and a disastrous defeat for the colonial power. Later that afternoon the victorious Zulus would strike the tiny British garrison at Rorke's Drift.How Can Man Die Better is a unique analysis of the ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Like Wolves on the Fold

    The Defense of Rorke's Drift

    by Lieutenant Colonel Mike Snook ...
    Narrated by Mike Cooper ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 44 min

    A detailed chronicle of a significant opening battle in the Anglo-Zulu War: "The Zulu attack on Rorke's Drift thrillingly retold" (Richard Holmes).On January 22, 1879, the British Army in South Africa was swept aside by the seemingly unstoppable Zulu warriors at the Battle of Isandlwana. Nearby, at a remote outpost on the Buffalo River, a single company of the 24th Regiment and a few dozen ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD