Harold E. Raugh Jr. serves as the Command Historian, U.S. Army V Corps, Heidelberg, Germany. He is a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel of Infantry, the author or editor of five previous military history books and over 700 articles and book reviews, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
If not yet the U.S. Army’s answer to Jeremy Black, he [Harold
Raugh] is certainly prolific, with over 740 articles and book
reviews to his name....Intended as a research guide and aimed at
the academic library market, Harold Raugh’s Anglo-Zulu War, 1879 is
an impressive compilation and an invaluable tool for further
research.
*Soldiers of the Queen*
Raugh’s exhaustive bibliography of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 is an
astonishingly thorough guide to this conflict, for it not only
chronicles the aforementioned famous battles but places them into
the broadest possible historical context. In this regard, Raugh’s
book is an invaluable tool for studying and researching the
Anglo-Zulu War. His chapters are both chronological and topical,
and identify a rich variety of source materials and hard-to-find
publications. For example, Raugh’s guide begins with a general
bibliographic overview of the political and economic background to
the war. It then proceeds with an outstanding bibliography on the
rise of Shaka and the Zulu kingdom. On the war itself, Raugh
divides his chapters into the two phases of the conflict and goes
on to provide extensive citations on the following: the war’s
impact on popular culture; autobiographies, biographies, journals,
and letters of the major participants; regimental and unit
histories; soldiers’ letters published in newspapers; selected
illustrations from contemporary periodicals; and a large variety of
archival sources, including British and Natalian Parliamentary
Papers and personal and unofficial documents from the United
kingdom and South Africa. Raugh even includes miscellaneous lists
on poetry, films and television, music and dances, and websites.
Many of the citations are annotated and all entries are numbered
for easy referencing. Overall, this comprehensive bibliography
should stand the test of time as the best publication of its kind
on the Anglo-Zulu War.
*Journal of Military History*
The compiler of this book.... was well equipped for the arduous
task of locating every single scrap of recorded information about
the campaign of 1879 – every book or article, every contemporary
newspaper article, film, television programme, unpublished thesis
or archive collection of contemporary letters and papers that he
could find.... I think that we can reasonably assume that Dr. Raugh
has trawled up all the original source material that exists.
*s*
This is the first bibliography of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. After
an overview of the war, the bibliographic material is divided into
the following sections: overview; rise of the Zulu Nation
1819-1878; Anglo-Zulu War, Phase 1 with, among others, subsections
for specific battles; Anglo-Zulu War, Phase 2 with, among others,
subsections for the death of the Price Imperial and the capture of
Cetshwayo kaMpande; colonial troops; miscellaneous aspects such as
naval brigade, medical support, literature, and more;
autobiographies, biographies, journals, and letters; regimental and
unit histories; soldiers’ letters published in newspapers; selected
notices and illustrations from contemporary periodicals; British
and Natalian Parliamentary papers; government and official
documents; personal and unofficial documents, United Kingdom;
personal and unofficial documents, South Africa; and personal and
unofficial documents, other repositories. There is an author/editor
index included. The Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 was a short colonial
campaign that was much debated in Victorian military history. This
book is intended as a research guide and tool to identify obscure
publications and source materials.
*American Reference Books Annual*
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