Fighting and writing : the Rhodesian army at war and postwar / Luise White.

"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.