Douglas Reed is the author of Insanity Fair, a prognostic book and autobiography which in 1938 foretold the invasions of Austria and Czechoslovakia and the resultant Second World War. In a second book he foresaw the Hitler-Stalin partnership of 1939. He discontinued writing some years ago and gave himself (as he says) "to other things". He sees the situation now as similar, in its essential shape and possible consequences, to that which moved him, after eighteen years in Europe, to write Insanity Fair. After UDI, he decided to write "one more book"; he thinks of it privately as Insanity Fair 1966-7, but relates it to the present situation in his title, The Battle for Rhodesia. He wrote it in Rhodesia. The picture he gives of that country will be different from that which most readers may have received from political speeches, newspapers, radio and television. It is, however, the true picture, as Insanity Fair proved to be, which was also held to be surprising and provoking in its day. It is based on personal knowledge of Southern Africa and life there, on authentic information, and on contacts with all manner of people, white and black. It aims to put the Battle for Rhodesia in its world context and historical perspective, something which his some. what exceptional experience qualifies him to do.

 

 

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