Military

Zulus and the Boer War

Jabulani Maphalala recalls the calamatious effects of a white man’s war on the Zulu people caught between them.

A German Guerrilla Chief in Africa

David Rooney describes the extraordinary exploits of Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, the German soldier who kept the Allies tied down in Africa throughout the Great War.

War Charity Begins at Home

Simon Fowler describes the huge upsurge in charity work in Britain in the First World War, concluding that it was an important way of uniting the nation behind the war effort.