Ian Knight
Author · 19 books
Ian Knight, BA, FRGS is a historian, author, battlefield guide and artifacts specialist internationally regarded as a leading authority on the nineteenth-century history of the Zulu kingdom, and in particular the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. He has a degree in Afro-Caribbean Studies from the University of Kent and has been researching and writing for more than thirty years. He has published over forty books and monographs, the majority of them on Zulu history and the rest on other nineteenth-century British colonial campaigns. He has appeared on-screen in a number of television documentaries. He is an Honorary Research Associate of the KwaZulu-Natal Museum in Pietermaritzburg.
Series
Books
Zulu Rising
The Epic Story of iSandlwana and Rorke's Drift
2010
British Forces in Zululand 1879
1991
Rorke's Drift 1879
'Pinned Like Rats in a Hole'
1996
The Anatomy of the Zulu Army
From Shaka to Cetshwayo, 1818-1879
1995
British Fortifications in Zululand 1879
2005
Zulu War
2004
Zulu 1816-1906
1995
Boer Guerrilla vs British Mounted Soldier
South Africa 1880-1902
2017
Queen Victoria's Enemies (1)
Southern Africa
1989
The New Zealand Wars 1820-72
2013
Isandlwana 1879
The great Zulu victory
2002
Marching to the Drums
1999
Queen Victoria's Enemies (3)
India
1989
The Zulu War, 1879
2003
Maori Fortifications
2009
Boer Commando 1876-1902
2004
Colenso 1899
The Boer War in Natal
1995
Rorke's Drift
Zulu War
1990
British Infantryman vs Zulu Warrior
Anglo-Zulu War 1879
2013
