South African Military Historian Boasts Huge War Collection

South African military enthusiast Alan Coleman boasts one of the biggest private collections of war-related material in the world, from swords used in the Napoleonic Wars in Europe in the early 1800s to British machine guns used in the Second World War. Some of Coleman’s pieces relate to Africa’s many conflicts, from Zulu spears to bullets from the Mau Mau insurgency in 1950’s colonial Kenya. Music from the Second World War era greets visitors to the War Store in Rosebank,...

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