The Bitter Harvest : The Great Betrayal and the Aftermath Ian Smith

The Bitter Harvest : The Great Betrayal and the Aftermath 

Author: Ian Smith      

Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers, Johannesburg, South Africa

Edition: Jonathan Ball Paperback Edition 2001  

ISBN: 1 86842 109 0 

Language: English 

Condition: Fair. Front edge bumped | Stained. Moisture damage. Good reading | reference copy.  

Binding: Softcover. 

Pages: 434. Print plus images and maps   

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Ian Smith, the former Prime Minister of Rhodesia died, leaving behind him a lifetime of resistance to black majority rule and the dangers that he believed it would bring to his country. Ian Smith was a man with the ability to excite powerful emotions in all who heard his name. To those who still revere his memory he was a hero, a mighty leader, a man whose formidable integrity led him into head-to-head confrontation with the Labour Government of Britain in the 1960s. To others, he was, and remains, a demon, a reactionary whose intransigence long delayed majority rule in an important corner of Africa. The last decades of the twentieth century and the first years of the new millennium have seen Zimbabwe spiral into a chaos of violence and towards the brink of economic collapse, prompting many to reappraise Smith's role and the prescience of his actions. In this revealing and important historical document, Ian Smith charts the rise and fall of a once-great nation. He tells the remarkable story behind the signing of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence, as well as the excesses of power that Mugabe has used to create the virtual dictatorship which exists in Zimbabwe today.

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