Dead Leaves
Two Years in the Rhodesian War
It is January, 1978. Groups of nervous, dutiful white conscripts begin their National Service with Rhodesia's security forces. Ian Smith's minority regime is in its dying days and negotiations towards majority rule are already under way. For these inexperienced eighteen-year-olds, there is nothing to do but go on fighting, and hold the line while the transition happens around them. Dead Leaves is a richly textured memoir in which an ordinary troopie grapples with the unique dilemmas presented by an extraordinary period in history - the specters of inner violence and death; the pressurized arrival of manhood; and the place of conscience, frien…
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- ISBN: 978-1-86914-005-2
- EAN: 9781869140052
- Produktnummer: 23083489
- Verlag: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
- Seitenangabe: 212 S.
- Masse: H21.5 cm x B13.9 cm x D1.4 cm 278 g
- Abbildungen: maps
- Gewicht: 278
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
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