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Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.
The film Zulu made the Battle of Rorke's Drift legendary, but it turned its most important defender into a footnote.

In the 1964 classic, James Langley Dalton appears as a quiet, effete commissariat clerk who hands out ammunition and fires not a shot, and somehow ended up with a Victoria Cross.

The real story, however, is far different, and far more exciting.
 
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A Strange Memorial in a British military cemetery in Malta, recalls a forgotten story from the First World War.

Chris Green is The History Chap; telling stories that brings the past to life.
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The story of Alfred before he was great.
The Viking invasion of Wessex during the winter of  870/871 - 6 great battles - and the rise of a king who would save England.

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The 1964 film, "Zulu" saw Michael Caine's debut on the big screen.
He played Lt. Gonville Bromhead, one of the 11 men awarded the Victoria Cross at the Battle of Rorke's Drift, fought in the Anglo-Zulu War, 1879.

But how close was Caine's character to the real Lt. Bromhead?

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