Overview
These two companion volumes on Soldiers and Society give new perspectives on Zimbabwe's liberation struggle. This work is an attempt to look at some of the realities of Zimbabwe's liberation war and at what happened afterwards, rather than at the comfortable myths. Both heroic and terrible deeds are recorded. Zimbabwe: University of Zimbabwe Publications
Full Product Details
Author: Ngwabi Bhebe (Royalty Account) ,
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Publisher: James Currey
Imprint: James Currey
Dimensions:
Width: 14.20cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 22.70cm
Weight: 0.346kg
ISBN: 9780852556092
ISBN 10: 0852556098
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 19 September 1996
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
'These volumes provide signposts for researchers to begin to ask new questions about the events of the wars' - Diana Jeater in Journal of African History 'The two volumes represent the most important critical collection of work thus far published on the liberation struggle in Zimbabwe. The range of the sutdies provides an impressive overview of the complex responses of various social forces to the liberation war...' - Brian Raftopoulos in Journal of Southern African Studies '...a brief but valuable collection...' - Basil Davidson in The Times Higher Education Supplement 'This work is an important landmark in the history of Zimbabwe's independence war and it will provide an important focus for not only military, social and economic historians, but also non-specialist readers with an interest in this fascinating conflict and its immediate aftermath.' - Edmund Yorke, Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst in The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics
These volumes provide signposts for researchers to begin to ask new questions about the events of the wars. - Diane Jeater in JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY These two volumes represent the most important critical collection of work on the liberation struggle in Zimbabwe. The range of the studies provides an impressive overview of the complex responses of various social forces to the liberation war... - Brian Raftopoulos in JOURNAL OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN STUDIES ...a brief but valuable collection... - Basil Davidson in THE TIMES HIGHER EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT This work is an important landmark in the history of Zimbabwe's independence war and it will provide an important focus for not only military, social and economic historians, but also non-specialist readers with an interest in tonly military, social and economic historians, but also non-specialist readers with an interest in this fascinating conflict and its immediate aftermath. - Edmun
