The authors examine the values and beliefs of White Rhodesia, exploring the fundamental nature of its racial and national identity. They assess how White Rhodesians, ill-prepared for war and revolutionary change as they ware in 1970, reacted to the challenge to and eventual loss of their domain. This is the story of how Rhodesia became Zimbabwe.

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what is new about this book is its examination of the personal and public needs of Rhodesians to preserve the staus quo in theface of political change, and the costs of trying to maintain segregation while fighting a war.