108 Pages
ISBN 978-1-917120-49-4
 
As was the principle concerning James's first Rorke’s Drift book, which was published nearly 40 years ago and has been reprinted at least seven times, his intention with this narrative has been to try to capture the feelings of uncertainty suffered by the defenders and the dreadful situation they found themselves in; this time written after spending five additional decades reading about and researching the subject, particularly eye-witness accounts–learning all the while and accepting advice from some of his peers. Quotes by the defenders themselves carry the narrative along without bogging it down with analysis. It includes re-assessments of some of the incidents within the battle and an interesting statistics section, with a list of all the known resting places of the defenders and their year of death.