On Place Names, Acronyms, and Currency -- Zimbabwe's Liberation Struggle and Rhodesia's Bush War: Locating its History -- "Blood and Ink": Memoirs, authors, histories -- "Your Shona is better than mine!": Blacking up and the pleasures of counterinsurgency -- "Every footprint tells a story": tracking and poaching -- "There is no copyright on facts": Litigation, Authorship, and the Transkei Defence Force -- "Every self-respecting terrorist has an AK-47": Guerrilla guns and the Rhodesian imagination -- "A plastic bag full of cholera": Chemical and biological weapons -- "Will travel worldwide: you pay expenses": foreign soldiers in the Rhodesian army -- "What interests do you have?" Security Force Auxiliaries and the limits of counterinsurgency.
Summary:
"White soldiers who fought to defend white rule in Southern Africa years in the 1960s and 1970s are generally thought to be unreconstructed racists, men whose ideas about Africans and the superiority of white people blinded them to the realities of the postcolonial world. Using interviews, archives, and the great many contentious war memoirs published following the war, Fighting and Writing argues that far from being the brutal, hapless pawns of a racist regime the white soldiers who fought for Rhodesia were ambivalent conscripts who generally understood the futility of the war"-- Provided by publisher
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