The stories of the dramatic battles in Zululand in the late nineteenth century are forever locked in the public imagination. With the help Hollywood films and countless books, legends have grown around the principal characters and the main events. The Zulu Wars tells the full true story of a war that, even by the standards of the day, contained not the faintest trace of legality and costs the lives of many brave men on both sides. The programmes root out the truth behind the battles such as those at Isandlwana and Rorke’s Drift and investigates the truth behind the wars’ famous characters and events.

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