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UK First Edition First print hardback Signed and Dated by the Author.
From the Publisher
This gripping new military adventure featuring Simon Fonthill
brilliantly depicts one of the last and most tragic of all battles in
the 'Scramble for Africa'. 1893. In the African Cape, ex-captain and
one-time subaltern Simon Fonthill and his wife Alice find themselves on
tribal land and at the mercy of Matabele warriors. While being held
under the orders of the Matabele king, Lobengula, Fonthill becomes
aware of a Portuguese plot to undermine a valuable treaty between
Lobengula and the richest man in Africa, Cecil Rhodes. When friction
develops between Rhodes and the Matabele tribesmen Fonthill is forced
to take sides and, together with comrade '352' Jenkins and Alice, he
becomes embroiled in one of the bloodiest battles in British history,
the Shangani River massacre.
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