Ian Smith said that black rule would "never in a thousand years" come to Rhodesia. Within a few short years he was proved wrong; a black bishop has taken Ian Smith's place. A promise of a 1000-year white rule became a 1000 day transition to black administration. Why was white rule so drastically curtailed? Was it just world pressure from enemies or the treachery of friends, particularly in South Africa? Was UDI inevitably doomed to bloody failure? will the current experiment in power-sharing between black and white be engulfed by the outsiders, the rampaging armies of the Patriotic Front? The author pulls no punches as he tells the complete story of the last days of white rule. Here are all the intrigues in the U.N., the blackmail tactics of the British and Americans, the murderous infighting in the guerrilla armies as well as the political chicanery in Pretoria and Salisbury. This is a factual account of the end of the Rhodesian rebellion but it reads like a thriller laced with humour and compassion. This well illustrated book will disclose much of what many people wanted to hear; and some things they would rather not discover as well.
Published	1979, revised 1980
Condition	Used
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