Of Land and Spirits

 Of Land and Spirits

Author: Alan Thrush

Publisher: Transition Publishing, Guersey  

Edition: First Edition 1997

IBSN: 0-620-20913-5

Language: English

Condition: Very good. Clean copy with tight binding.

Binding: Hardcover

Pages: 408

Additional Information

The finest piece of writing, novels or otherwise, on the fighting in the Rhodesian bush. Thrush writes skilfully from personal experience that lends strong credibility to a work that he protests is pure fiction. The historical background is accurate and in some instances revealing. J R T Wood historian and author Battle action from the African bush. Zimbabwe-Rhodesia March 1980: It is a time of turmoil and suffering as white rule gives way to black nationalism in a part of British colonial Africa riven by a war that has cost 50 000 dead and untold wounded. In the humid, pre-dawn gloom, Rhodesian Army units are poised to re-group and attack assembled guerrilla forces. Results of the internationally supervised elections are seeping through: an overwhelming vote for Robert Mugabe. In camps across the country, twenty thousand guerrillas stand to their weapons, waiting for the napalm to come crashing and burning into hut, trench and bunker. Waiting for the soldiers, pouring down from the sky. This fight is to the death the climax of eight years of war between two allied guerrilla armies and an established government which has dared to unilaterally declare its independence from England. No quarter is given. It is the end of Empire in Africa: Rhodesian history, and Zimbabwean history, too. Of Land and Spirits is the best-selling classic of the final years of that war the story of Andrew Scott, John Bruton, George Sibanda, Kuretu, Mpehla and many others of the Rhodesian Army as they fight with great skill a war they cannot win. For even as the kills mount, so the numbers of the enemy inside the country grow ever larger. It is also the story of a rural population and its swikiros the spirit mediums who lead and guard won over to the revolutionary side by Jason Mavunha, Elias Chimombe and other guerrillas of the Zimbabwe

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