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Greaves' work offers detailed maps and firsthand insight into the Anglo-Zulu War, providing necessary insight and overviews of the conflict's pivotal battles like Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift. In 1878 southern Africa’s two most senior figures, army commander General Lord Chelmsford and the High Commissioner Sir Henry Bartle-Frere created a false threat of a Zulu invasion of British Natal. In an astonishing act of over-confidence and without any government permission, Frere and Chelmsford invaded Zululand with five independent columns of troops. Both leaders ignored the serious implications of their two recently failed expeditions against the Zulus’ neighbouring King Sekhukhune and his Pe...
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After the war, Wood played on the Women's Professional Softball Team in Chicago, Illinois, in 1946. Wood worked as a physical education instructor for forty-one years and continued to fly. She has flown around the world, crossing Europe seven times, and was the first American pilot to fly to the top of Finland.