Zulu Hart
(Zulu Hart 1)

Historian Saul David mixes fact with fiction to create a realistic battleground for this Zulu War based novel, which features a part Irish, part Zulu, illegitimate but English brought up George Hart. As a young man Hart joins the Dragoons with a promise of an inheritance from his unknown father shoul......more

This very much feels like a historical writer turned to fiction writing and goes from story to clunky explanations (like how specific guns work). Not all the ideas in this are bad but sometimes the internal monologue of George Hart is contradictory, seems like a real flip flop.......more

I have to declare a bias: one of the real characters in this book is my 3rd great grand uncle, at the time serving as a Colonel! He later became Sir Henry Evelyn Wood, VC., with the rank of Field Marshal. He was the author of “From Midshipman to Field Marshal”.....the ranks are correct! His sister a......more

Since I know very little about the history of South Africa and its Zulu people, finding both of the books 'Zulu Hart' and 'Hart of Empire' together at a flea market, the covers and subject attracted me. I do like historic novels in which the 'real' people are a definite part of the story and I must......more

Loved the book very easy to read really felt for the boy Hart who really didn't fit into either society. Not the white class or the Zulu class. He's bullied at school and this continues into his adult hood. He learns from his mother as he has no idea of who his father is that he has money waiting hi......more