My Brother's Keeper
Book Details
Author(s)Douglas Hawkins
ISBN / ASINB00MFSNH5K
ISBN-13978B00MFSNH57
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
A powerful novel of intrigue and deception set in the Anglo-Zulu war of 1879, written from a Zulu family’s view.
When rumours of an invasion of the Zulu kingdom by forces of the British Empire sweep through the land the Zulu army mobilises at the royal capital.
As war with Britain looms, the chief of a powerful clan loyal to the king struggles to avoid a civil war within his people. Anti-royalist forces hiding in his domain are drawing his sons into a plot to place a renegade prince on the Zulu throne under British protection. An old medicine woman foretells of an attempted assassination of the chief’s heir, and of a mysterious young woman who is the key to saving his life.
In a resounding victory the Zulu army defeats the invading British force at the battle of Isandlwana. At the ensuing battle of Rorke’s Drift the anti-royalists make their attempt to assassinate the clan heir followed by an attack on the military outpost of the clan chief.
This is a story within the story of the Anglo-Zulu war; a story of warriors, chiefs and a king caught up in a churning mix of intrigue and deception. British infantrymen of the time wore scarlet tunics and dark blue trousers, and were known to the Zulu as red soldiers.
Samm Marshall, SABC 2 Weekend Live presenter
‘I was enthralled with this story and immediately set up an interview with the author when I was two thirds through the book. I was genuinely surprised by this debut novel by Douglas Hawkins as the writing appears to be of an experienced author’
‘Following his passion for history, the author extensively researched the first month of the Anglo-Zulu war of 1879 and has approached it from the view of a high ranking Zulu family caught up in that war. The result is an historical novel that tells a tale with superb entertainment value as it follows a well thought-out and intricate plot, cleverly interwoven with factual history, Zulu tradition and mystique that brings people and places of the 19th century alive.’
Editor: Aneza Lee Immelman
The author has given us a wide picture of Zululand of the 1870s, with the tensions not only between the Zulu nation and the British, but within the nation itself. He has told the story from the standpoint of a well-born Zulu family…there is much one can learn about Zulu culture, which he researched– Shirley de Kock Gueller. Cape Times.
When rumours of an invasion of the Zulu kingdom by forces of the British Empire sweep through the land the Zulu army mobilises at the royal capital.
As war with Britain looms, the chief of a powerful clan loyal to the king struggles to avoid a civil war within his people. Anti-royalist forces hiding in his domain are drawing his sons into a plot to place a renegade prince on the Zulu throne under British protection. An old medicine woman foretells of an attempted assassination of the chief’s heir, and of a mysterious young woman who is the key to saving his life.
In a resounding victory the Zulu army defeats the invading British force at the battle of Isandlwana. At the ensuing battle of Rorke’s Drift the anti-royalists make their attempt to assassinate the clan heir followed by an attack on the military outpost of the clan chief.
This is a story within the story of the Anglo-Zulu war; a story of warriors, chiefs and a king caught up in a churning mix of intrigue and deception. British infantrymen of the time wore scarlet tunics and dark blue trousers, and were known to the Zulu as red soldiers.
Samm Marshall, SABC 2 Weekend Live presenter
‘I was enthralled with this story and immediately set up an interview with the author when I was two thirds through the book. I was genuinely surprised by this debut novel by Douglas Hawkins as the writing appears to be of an experienced author’
‘Following his passion for history, the author extensively researched the first month of the Anglo-Zulu war of 1879 and has approached it from the view of a high ranking Zulu family caught up in that war. The result is an historical novel that tells a tale with superb entertainment value as it follows a well thought-out and intricate plot, cleverly interwoven with factual history, Zulu tradition and mystique that brings people and places of the 19th century alive.’
Editor: Aneza Lee Immelman
The author has given us a wide picture of Zululand of the 1870s, with the tensions not only between the Zulu nation and the British, but within the nation itself. He has told the story from the standpoint of a well-born Zulu family…there is much one can learn about Zulu culture, which he researched– Shirley de Kock Gueller. Cape Times.
