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=== General and cited references === {{Refbegin}} * [[Frances Colenso|Colenso, F. E.]] ''History of the Zulu War and Its Origin'', London, 1880. * Greaves, Adrian, ''Rorke's Drift'', Cassell, London, 2002. * Knight, Ian, ''Rorke's Drift 1879, "Pinned Like Rats in a Hole"''; Osprey Campaign Series #41, [[Osprey Publishing]] 1996, {{ISBN|1-85532-506-3}}. * Knight, Ian, ''The Zulu War 1879'', Osprey, 2003, {{ISBN|1-84176-612-7}} * {{Cite book|last=Laband|first=John|title=Kingdom in Crisis: The Zulu Response to the British Invasion of 1879|publisher=[[Manchester University Press]]|year=1992|isbn=0-7190-3582-1}} * Lock, Ron; Quantrill, Peter. ''Zulu Victory: The Epic of Isandlwana and the Cover-up''. Greenhill Books. 2005, {{ISBN|1-85367-645-4}}. * Morris, Donald R. ''The Washing of the Spears: A History of the Rise of the Zulu Nation under Shaka and Its Fall in the Zulu War of 1879''. Da Capo Press, 1998, {{ISBN|0-306-80866-8}}. * Morris, Roy Jr. (August 2005), ''[[Military Heritage]]'', Volume 7, No. 1, p. 8).{{Full citation needed|date=June 2022}} Discusses Rorke's Drift and the politics of the Victoria Cross.<!-- "https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2015/12/01/the-politics-of-military-heroes/" https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2015/12/01/the-politics-of-military-heroes/ ? I cannot confirm that that this is the same article --> * {{cite book |last=Porter |first=Whitworth |author-link=Whitworth Porter |year=1889 |contribution=South African Wars, 1847β1885 |title=History of the Corps of Royal Engineers |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FqdBAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA24 |volume=II |location=London |publisher=Longmans, Green, and Co. |pages=24β43 |access-date=2008-08-14}} * Snook, Lt Col Mike, ''Like Wolves on the Fold: The Defence of Rorke's Drift''. Greenhill Books, London, 2006. {{ISBN|1-85367-659-4}}. * Thompson, Paul Singer. ''Black soldiers of the queen: the Natal native contingent in the Anglo-Zulu War''. University of Alabama Press, 2006, {{ISBN|0-8173-5368-2}}. * {{cite book | last = Whybra | first = Julian | title = England's Sons: a casualty and survivors' roll of British combatants for the battle of ... Isandhlwana | publisher = One Slice Books Ltd | year = 2004 | isbn = 978-1-908901-94-1 }} {{Refend}}
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