One of my favourites too. Highly recommend a book "The Washing of the Spears: the Rise and Fall of the Zulu Nation" by Don Morris that gives the story of the events that lead up to the Rorke's Drift encounter and its aftermath.
I'm green, I say green, with envy.
Thank-you for the kind words! I PMd Gemma a month ago about Dell Movie Classics and thanks to her, there will be a set on the horizon.
"Washing of the Spears" was just ordered by me, sounds right up my alley - cheers! (thumbs u
Next week I will also be subbing the Bethlehem Pedigree of "Naked Prey," (a definite 9.0 hoping, hoping 9.4 ) That flick trumps Zulu and Zulu Dawn imho, maybe you disagree. But Ol' Cornell is the man in that!
As for Michael Caine in Zulu, simply........