Dead Leaves: Two Years in the Rhodesian War - Softcover

Wylie, Dan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1869140052 ISBN 13: 9781869140052

Verlag: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2002

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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, friendship and beauty in the pervasive atmosphere of futile warfare.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1869140052
• ISBN 13: 9781869140052
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 196
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