Fighting and writing : the Rhodesian army at war and postwar /
White soldiers who fought to defend white rule in southern Africa years in the 1960s and 1970s are generally thought to be unreconstructed racists, men whose ideas about Africans and the superiority of white people blinded them to the realities of the postcolonial world. Using interviews, archives a...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham, North Carolina :
Duke University Press,
[2021]
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| Summary: | White soldiers who fought to defend white rule in southern Africa years in the 1960s and 1970s are generally thought to be unreconstructed racists, men whose ideas about Africans and the superiority of white people blinded them to the realities of the postcolonial world. Using interviews, archives and the great many contentious war memoirs published following the war, Fighting and Writing argues that far from being the brutal, hapless pawns of a racist regime the white soldiers who fought for Rhodesia were ambivalent conscripts who generally understood the futility of the war. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781478010623 1478010622 9781478011729 1478011726 |