Under The Skin The Death of White Rhodesia David Caute
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Under The Skin The Death of White Rhodesia
Author: David Caute
Publisher: Penguin Books
Edition: First 1983
ISBN: 014 00 5604 1
Language: English
Condition: Good. Age related discolouration and dedication to previous owner, otherwise a clean copy
Binding: Softcover
Pages:378. Print with Images
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Traces the political history of Zimbabwe from 1976 to 1980 and examines the development of the country's racial strife
Under the Skin-The Death of White Rhodesia....It is an epic account of the bitter rearguard action staged by white Rhodesia in its desperate bid to prevent the emergence of black majority rule. The book provides both a narrative of events from 1976 to 1980 and a portrait of a racial elite fighting to protect its privileged position. David Caute describes a 'collective state of mind and more particularly the extraordinary mental manoeuvres by which pillage is termed responsible government, repression becomes law and order, usurpation is called authority, violence is lauded as restraint',
Combining a historian's power of analysis with a journalist's eyewitness reporting of events and a novelists sense of detail, Caute brings to life politicians, soldiers, farmers, businessmen and housewives, exploring the feelings ot outrage experienced by conquerors when dispossessed natives attempt to recover by force what was so recently sized by force..
Rhodesia | Rhodesian | Selous Scout | Ian Smith | Mugabe | UDI | Nkomo | Peter Godwin | Peter Stiff | Cecil Rhodes | Chimurenga