Flashman and the Zulus

Adventures of Thomas Flashman

By: Robert Brightwell

Narrated by: Henry Clore Harrison

While many people have heard of the battle at Rorke’s Drift, (featured in the film Zulu), and the one at Isandlwana that preceded it, few outside of South Africa know of an earlier and equally bloody conflict. Under a tyrannical king, the Zulu nation defended its territory with ruthless efficiency against white settlers. Only a naïve English vicar, with his family and some translators, are permitted to live in the king’s capital. It is into this cleric’s household that Thomas Flashman finds himself, as a most reluctant guest.

Listening to sermons of peace and tolerance against a background of executions and slaughter, Thomas is soon fleeing for his life, barely a spearpoint ahead of regiments of fearsome warriors. He is to learn that there is a fate even worse than his own death, before being pitched in with Boers and British settlers as they fight a cunning and relentless foe. Thomas strives for his own salvation, before discovering that chance has not finished with him yet.

©2020 Robert Brightwell (P)2022 Henlow Publishing Ltd

another excellent Flashman novel

Flashman finds himself facing the zulu's and as usual with this series, the results are riveting . The depths of historical research and realism is augmented by the strength of the story and the humor of flashman's experience.

Another excellent adventure

I'm a fan of all Brightwell's works, and this is no exception. Besides the intriguing characters, derring do, and precarious situations, Brightwell nails the flow and drama of the real-life encounters and battles Flashman engages in.

I'm fortunate enough to have walked many of these battlefields, and the author's mastery of the terrain and feel of the places makes the reader feel they're there in Thomas's shoes.

I can't recommend these stories highly enough for any student of historical fiction.