BROTHERS UNDER THE SKIN by Christopher Hope

Christopher Hope, prize-winning author and renowned journalist, was six years old when he met his first dictator. It was Dr Hendrik Verwoerd, friendly neighbour and architect of the brutal apartheid regime in South Africa. Since then he has observed the cruelties and absurdities of tyranny in many places and amongst many peoples, most recently in the repeating patterns of repression instigated by Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe.

Brothers Under The Skin is an impassioned reflection on the all too familiar traits of tyranny; its wild paranoia, its murderous conviction of righteousness, and its inability to concede power, however small. From Milosovic's Serbia to the killing fields of Matabeleland, he reveals the vainglorious essence of tyranny as being essentially the same, regardless of the race, nation or ideology it claims to embody.

Soft cover, fair condition. The cover shows minor signs of wear,. the paper is browning a bit.