Biografia Insegnò storia per 42 anni in molte università sudafricane, inglesi e canadesi. Pubblicò numerosi libri sulle guerre dell'Africa australe, specialmente la guerra anglo-zulu del 1879. John Paul Clow Laband fu anche professore emerito e titolare della cattedra di storia dell'Università Wilfrid Laurier in Canada, nonché membro a vita del Clare Hall dell'Università di Cambridge in Inghilterra.
Opere (non esaustivo) Fight Us In The Open; The Anglo-Zulu War Through Zulu Eyes, Pietermaritzburg, 1985 Kingdom in Crisis: The Zulu Response to the British Invasion of 1879, 1992 Isandlwana, KwaZulu Monuments Council series, 1992 Lord Chelmsford's Zululand Campaign 1878-1879, Army Records Society, 1994 Rope of Sand: The Rise and Fall of the Zulu Kingdom in the Nineteenth Century, 1995, Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, The Illustrated Guide to the Anglo-Zulu War, 2000, with Paul Thompson, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, The Atlas of the Later Zulu Wars, 1883-1888, 2001, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, The Transvaal Rebellion: The First Boer War 1880-1881, Taylor & Francis Ltd, The Battle of Majuba Hill: The Transvaal Campaign, 1880-1881, Helion & Company, Daily Lives Of Civilians In Wartime Africa, 2007, Historical Dictionary of the Zulu Wars, Scarecrow Press, Zulu Warriors: The Battle for the South African Frontier, Yale University Press, The assassination of King Shaka, Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, Zulu Identities: Being Zulu, Past and Present, with Benedict Carton and Jabulani Sithole, C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, The eight Zulu kings: From Shaka to Goodwill Zwelithini, Jonathan Ball Publishers SA, The Fall of Rorke's Drift: An Alternate History of the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, Greenhill Books, Bringers of War, Pen & Sword Books Ltd, The A to Z of the Zulu Wars, Scarecrow Press,
Riferimenti nella letteratura John Gooch, The Boer War: Direction, Experience, and Image, University of Leeds, p.107-126, 2000 Adrian Greaves, The Tribe That Washed Its Spears: The Zulus at War, Pen & Sword Military, 2013 Harold E. Raugh, Jr., Anglo-Zulu War, 1879: A Selected Bibliography, Scarecrow Press, 2011 Stephen M. Miller, Soldiers and Settlers in Africa: 1850 - 1918, 2009 Keith Smith, Dead Was Everything: Studies in the Anglo-Zulu War, Frontline Books, 2014
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