This is a story of empire-building in Africa with a difference. The author presents the facts with sardonic humour yet with sympathetic understanding of the remarkable characters he portrays. He is concerned to relate only the unvarnished truth-and that is the essence of the book's special quality. It is the story of two peoples, each with their own autocratic leader, who in turn conquer the same land-that great stretch of Africa between the Limpopo and the Zambesi, now called Rhodesia. The first were black heathens, and they came openly as intending conquerors; the second, who were white, professed to be Christians, and they came in stealth and pretended they had no designs on the land, which they took nevertheless. It is an exciting story, and it contains many incidents in this page of empirebuilding history which are not widely known entertaining and revealing incidents to colour the characters of men like Cecil Rhodes and Dr. Jameson; and the old Matabele chiefs, M'Zilikazi and Lobengula.
	Mr. Gibbs has dissected a legend and found something slightly different from, and considerably more amusing than, the pages of official history.
Published	1955
Other information	1st Edition, used.

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