Dead Leaves: Two Years in the Rhodesian War - Couverture souple

Wylie, Dan

 
9781869140052: Dead Leaves: Two Years in the Rhodesian War
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1869140052 ISBN 13 : 9781869140052
Editeur : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2002

Synopsis

It is January 1979. 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, hold the line while the transition happens around them. This is a textured memoir in which an ordinary troopie grapples with unique dilemmas presented by an extraordinary period in history: the spectres of inner violence and death; the pressurised arrival of manhood; and the place of conscience, friendship and beauty in the pervasive atmosphere of futile warfare.

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À propos de l?auteur

Dan Wylie teaches in the English department at Rhodes University, specializing in early Zulu history, Zimbabwean literature, and literature and ecology. He is the founder of the annual Literature & Ecology Colloquium.

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Éditeur
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1869140052
ISBN 13 
9781869140052
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
212
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Personne responsable
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