The Washing of the Spears is a 1965 book by Donald R. Morris about the "Zulu Nation under Shaka" and the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.
Morris worked on the book during a five-year posting in Berlin.
The first edition, published in 1966, was over 600 pages with detailed bibliography.
A second edition of the book, titled The Washing of the Spears: The rise and fall of the Zulu Nation, was published in 1998.
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