This work is one of the most widley known military campaigns of the
Victorian era. The story is presented through the After the Battle
series then and now photographic theme and contains graphic eyewitness
accounts from both sides which aim to convey what it was like to give
battle in the 1870s. Additional chapters cover what remains to be seen
today, both on the battlefields and in museums; the lonely and sometimes
unmarked and forgotten graves of the participants; the British forts and
their ruins; plus accounts of those film productions that have since
been made of the 1879 war.