Shaka

1787–1828

Shaka was king of the Zulu kingdom in the early nineteenth century and a major figure in southern African history. His military and political changes helped build Zulu power, though later traditions about his reign mix history, memory and legend.

In Allan Mallinson’s Company of Spears, the expedition takes him beyond the colonial frontier towards the Umtata River and the expanding Zulu kingdom of Shaka. In Allan Mallinson’s Warrior, Reports that Shaka is preparing another campaign bring Hervey back to the Cape and north towards the Zulu kingdom with a small escort of dragoons and mounted rifles. Other novels featuring Shaka include Wilbur Smith’s Warrior King and Wilbur Smith’s Vengeance.

Series

Series featuring Shaka (2 series)

Birds of Prey Sequence in Order

by Wilbur Smith 10 books 4.4

The extended Birds of Prey sequence follows successive Courtney generations from the Second Anglo-Dutch War and the Indian Ocean trading world through the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, the Napoleonic era and the rise of the Zulu kingdom. Its ten books connect maritime commerce, piracy, colonial…

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Birds of Prey

4.6

Golden Lion

4.0

Monsoon

4.6

The Tiger’s Prey

4.4

Blue Horizon

4.6

Ghost Fire

4.4

Storm Tide

4.5

Nemesis

4.4

Warrior King

4.4

Vengeance

4.5

Matthew Hervey in Order

by Allan Mallinson 14 books 4.2

The Matthew Hervey novels follow an English cavalry officer from the final campaign against Napoleon into the unsettled decades after Waterloo. Beginning as a young cornet in the 6th Light Dragoons, Hervey advances through command while trying to reconcile professional duty, personal honour, family obligations and the often…

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