Like wolves on the fold : the defence of Rorke's drift / Lieutenant Colonel Mike Snook ; foreword by Lieutenant Colonel Huw Lloyd-Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Snook, Mike, author.

Contributor:

Lloyd-Jones, Huw, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 24th (2nd Warwickshire).

Great Britain.

Rorke's Drift, Battle of, South Africa, 1879.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (427 p.)

Place of Publication:

Barnsley, South Yorkshire : Frontline Books, [2010]

Summary:

Wednesday 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic days in the annals of military history. In the morning, a modern British army was swept aside by the onset of a seemingly unstoppable host at Isandlwana. Nearby, at a remote border outpost on the Buffalo River, a single company of the 24th Regiment and a few dozen recuperating hospital patients were passing another hot, monotonous day. News of the disaster across the river came like a bolt from the blue. Retreat was not an option. It seemed certain that the Rorke's Drift detachment would share the terrible fate of their comrades.Colonel Sn

Contents:

Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Prologue; Part One - Race against Time; Chapter 1 - Nothing Will Happen; Spalding Hands over Command; The Sound of Distant Battle; Alarm; Bromhead and Dalton Confer; Chard Hears the News; On the Helpmekaar Road; Chapter 2 - Trouble in the Wind; The Perimeter; Fields of Fire; More Fugitives Come In; The Undi Corps; Desertion of the Levies; Fred Hitch Opens the Battle; Spalding Catches On; Part Two - Thin Red Line of Heroes; Chapter 3 - At the Point of the Bayonet; The Fighting in Front of the Hospital

The Fate of 'Old King' ColeThe Rest of the Impi Enters the Fray; Loss of the Hospital Compound; The Zulus Extend Their Attack Further East; Withdrawal to the Retrenchment Barricade; Post of Danger; Chapter 4 - Like Rats in a Hole The Evacuation of the Hospital; The Waters Saga; The Twelth VC; Harry Hook and John Williams Pair Up; The Joneses; The Dash; Chapter 5 - The Night is Darkest before the Dawn; The Redoubt; The Night Fighting; Pause; Chapter 6 - Deliverance; Clearing Patrols; Enemy in Sight; Ships that Pass in the Night; Salvation; Part Three - The Leaves of Autumn

Chapter 7 - Despise Not Your EnemyThe Lost Colours; On the Defensive; Disaster at Ntombi Drift; Hlobane and Kambula; Gingindlovu; Between Invasions: Reconstitution of the 1st/24th; The Second Invasion; 'For Queen and Country Jesu Mercy'; Chapter 8 - How Did It Come to This?; Epilogue - Footnotes in History; Appendices; Bibliography and Sources; Glossary; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-295) and index.

ISBN:

9781783469949

1783469943