1
/
of
0
Military History Books
RHODESIA: LAST OUTPOST OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE 1890-1980
Regular price
£35.00 GBP
Regular price
Sale price
£35.00 GBP
Shipping calculated at checkout.
Couldn't load pickup availability
Author: Peter Baxter
Publisher: Galago Books
Year published: 2010
Pagination: 544pp, 6 colour & 130 b/w photos
Condition: New
In 1890 Cecil John Rhodes’ engaged Lobengula, the Matabele king, in lengthy negotiations whilst seeking a Royal Charter for white pioneers to occupy Mashonaland. This book relates Rhodesia’s history right up to Lancaster House in 1979 and the ‘free and fair’ elections that foisted the Marxist Robert Mugabe on the country. The author has skilfully threaded in the many often larger-than-life personalities who shaped Rhodesia’s destiny from Rhodes, Leander Starr Jameson, and King Lobengula, to Garfield Todd, Joshua Nkomo, Robert Mugabe and Ian Smith.