A History Of Rhodesia

Author : Robert Blake
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Rhodesia written by Robert Blake and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1978 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned Oxford historian, drawing on ten years of research, details the economic, political, ideological, and external forces that have shaped the history of the troubled African country from 5000 B.C. to 1977.

Author : Peter Baxter
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781726710626
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhodesia written by Peter Baxter and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-10-20 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before there was Zimbabwe, there was Rhodesia, a British colony founded by the great capital imperialist Cecil John Rhodes, and administered by the British South Africa Company. Rhodesia was the last British territory in Africa, and the most difficult to divest. This is the story of a gifted land, bitterly contested as the final imperial chapter in Africa. Through war and peace, following the careers of some of the great African leaders of the modern age, this was the last, painful transition from colonial to liberated Africa.A story intricately told and meticulously researched. For all enthusiasts of African and British Imperial history, this book is a must read!

Author : Howard Hensman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Rhodesia written by Howard Hensman and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul L. Moorcraft
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811707253
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rhodesian War written by Paul L. Moorcraft and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - The vicious conflict (1964-79) that brought Robert Mugabe to power in Zimbabwe - Expert coverage of the war, its historical context, and its aftermath - Descriptions of guerrilla warfare, counterinsurgency operations, and actions by units like Grey's Scouts Amid the colonial upheaval of the 1960s, Britain urged its colony in Southern Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe) to grant its black residents a greater role in governing the territory. The white-minority government refused and soon declared its independence, a move bitterly opposed by the black majority. The result was the Rhodesian Bush War, which pitted the government against black nationalist groups, one of which was led by Robert Mugabe. Marked by unspeakable atrocities, the war ended in favor of the nationalists.

Author : Eliakim M. Sibanda
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9781592212767
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Zimbabwe African People's Union, 1961-87 written by Eliakim M. Sibanda and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exploration of the political history of insurgency in SOuthern Rhodesia. During the early years of its struggle, ZAPU employed non-violent means to try and achieve its goal for majority rule and a non-racial society. Because of the belligerancy of the White settler regime, ZAPU added the armed resistance to its strategy and went on to build a formidable army. Problems escalated and alliances were built and dissolved until, tired of being hunted down and butchered, the ZAPU leadership decided to merge its party with the ruling party in December 1987.

Author : Beryl Salt
Publisher : Helion and Company
ISBN 13 : 1908916265
Total Pages : 857 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Pride of Eagles written by Beryl Salt and published by Helion and Company. This book was released on 2015-02-19 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of military aviation in Rhodesia from the romantic days of 'bush' flying in the 1920s and '30s-when aircraft were refueled from jerrycans and landing grounds were often the local golf course-to the disbandment of the Rhodesian Air Force (RhAF) on Zimbabwean independence in 1980. In 1939 the tiny Royal Rhodesian Air Force (RRAF) became the first to take up battle stations even before the outbreak of the Second World War. The three Rhodesian squadrons served with distinction in East Africa, the Western Desert, Italy and Western Europe. At home Rhodesia became a vast training ground for airmen from across the Empire-from Britain, the Commonwealth and even Greece. After the war, Rhodesia, on a negligible budget, rebuilt its air force, equipping it with Ansons, Spitfires, Vampires, Canberras, Hunters and Alouettes. Following UDI, the unilateral declaration of independence from Britain in 1965, international sanctions were imposed, resulting in many remarkable and groundbreaking innovations, particularly in the way of ordnance. The bitter 'bush war' followed in the late 1960s and '70s, with the RhAF in the vanguard of local counterinsurgency operations and audacious preemptive strikes against vast guerrilla bases in neighboring Mozambique, Zambia and Botswana and as far afield as Angola and Tanzania. With its aging fleet, including C-47 'Dakotas' that had been at Arnhem, the RhAF was able to wreak untold havoc on the enemy, Mugabe's ZANLA and Nkomo's ZIPRA. The late author took over 30 years in writing this book; the result is a comprehensive record that reflects the pride, professionalism and dedication of what were some of the world's finest airmen of their time. The late Beryl Salt was born in London in 1931. She emigrated to Southern Rhodesia in 1952 to get married in Salisbury, where her two sons were born. In 1953 she joined the Southern Rhodesian Broadcasting Services (later the Rhodesian Broadcasting Corporation, the RBC). With a love of history she wanted to find out as much as she could about her new country. This interest led to radio dramas and feature programmes, followed by several books: School History Text Book, The Encyclopaedia of Rhodesia and The Valiant Years, a history of the country as seen through the newspapers. She also produced a dramatized radio series about the Rhodesian Air Force. In 1965 she left the RBC and spent three years with the Ministry of Information, following which she was a freelance writer/broadcaster involved in a wide variety of projects until 1980 when she moved to Cape Town. She died in England in November 2001.

Author : Richard Hodder-Williams
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134904895X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Farmers in Rhodesia, 1890–1965 written by Richard Hodder-Williams and published by Springer. This book was released on 1983-06-18 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Howard Hensman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A history of Rhodesia written by Howard Hensman and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : H. Hensman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Rhodesia written by H. Hensman and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur Keppel-Jones
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077356103X
Total Pages : 693 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rhodes and Rhodesia written by Arthur Keppel-Jones and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1983-11-01 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British South Africa Company and the irregularity of its financial and political operations are dealt with in detail. Keppel-Jones also discusses the development in the midst of the indigenous population of an alien white society and state, from their crude beginnings to their emergence in a form still recognizable today. The reader is led to conclude that by 1902 Southern Rhodesia was already set on the road that would lead to the upheavals of the second half of the twentieth-century. The author examines the racial consciousness and prejudice of the white society and addresses an important question: why did the imperial government grant a royal charter to the BSA Company? The facts show conclusively that the imperial government had little interest in Central Africa or care for its fate except when foreign competition appeared. Keppel-Jones also reveals the important role played by black troops employed by the Company in suppressing the rebellions of 1896-7. For opposite reasons, neither blacks nor whites have been willing to recognize this; on the other hand the habit of the 'men-on-the-spot' of making and carrying out decisions without regard to their superiors in London is a commonplace of imperial history. One of the main themes of the book is the tension between the unofficial imperialists, straining at the leash, and the Colonial Office, struggling to hold them back. Rhodes and Rhodesia is based on extensive use of public records, mainly in the Public Record Office, London, and the National Archives of Zimbabwe, of collections of private papers, and of contemporary published works.