L J Field's Reviews > Soldier of the Queen

I started this volume as an audiobook and gave up on that. The narrator has very little inflection in his voice for various moments in the story and completely lacks excitement. Add to this that he is also the very slowest speaker I’ve come across. So, I bought the ebook and found that it was quite an excellent book. It tells the tale of a young man entering the British military around 1877 and his first actions in South Africa against the amaFengu and the Zulus (at Rorke’s Drift). I enjoyed this thoroughly.

Recently I read the Rorke’s Drift novel by James Mace. I think that Mace provided a better novel on this particular action. And Mace’s previous volume of the five volume series on Isandlwana was fantastic.