Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Prologue: Fight or Flight; Invasion; KwaJimu; Advance to Contact; The People of Heaven; The Army of Empire; 'Day of the Dead Moon': The Battle of Isandlwana; Estimate of the Situation; 'No Power Could Stand Against. . .'; 'Now We Must Make a Defence'; 'The First Rush'; 'Fix Bayonets'; Rifle-Butts, Bullets, and Bayonets; Fighting Fear; 'Do or Die'; 'Dawn Chorus'; Culmination; Aftermath; Life after Rorke's Drift; Appendices; The Irish at Isandlwana; The Irish at Rorke's Drift; The Irish Dead at Rorke's Drift

Family tree, Lieutenant Gonville BromheadLetter written by Walter Dunne at Rorke's Drift .; An Irish soldier-artist in Zululand; Chard's report to Queen Victoria; Popularly believed myths about Rorke's Drift (Historical fact versus cinematographical fiction); Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index