The Great Betrayal The Memoirs of Ian Douglas Smith

The Great Betrayal; the memoirs of Africa's most controversial leaders - Ian Smith - Blake - 1997, first edition - 418pp, index, black and white photographs - Hardcover and dustcover in good condition - Internally: one previous ownership on back of hardcover, Title page slightly loose, rest of book is clean and tightly bond.

Ian Smith, Rhodesia'a former Prime Minister, is a man with the power to excite powerful emotions is all who hear his name.

To those who revere him he is a hero, a mightly leader, a man whose formidable integrity led him into head-to-head confrontation with the Labour Government of Britain in the 1960's.

To others he is a demon, a reactionary whose intransigence long delayed majority rule in an important corner of Africa.

The truth, as this revealing and long-awaited autobiography reveals, lies somewhere between these two extremes.