Being a Memoir of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift, including Hints on Piano Theft, Theatrical Costumery and Acts of Arson, in the Service of Queen Victoria, God Bless Her. Being a Memoir of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift, including Hints on Piano Theft, Theatrical Costumery and Acts of Arson, in the Service of Queen Victoria, God Bless Her.A historical farce in the same vein as the Flashman books, White Zulu describes adventures and misadventures of Colonel Bagshot, late of her Majesty's Hussars in the battles of Isandlwana and Rourke's Drift. Solidly based in historical events, it plays on the "unseen events" of war to tell a tale in his retirement.