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Dr Wood recommends the following books to readers wishing to find out more about the history of Zimbabwe and Rhodesia.
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| Rhodesia: Political |
| Astrow, Andre, Zimbabwe: A Revolution That Lost Its Way, Zed Press, London, 1983 | | Berlyn, Phillippa, THE QUIET MAN: A Biography of the Hon. Ian Douglas Smith, I.D., Prime Minister of Rhodesia, M. O. Collins, Salisbury, 1978 | | Blair, David, Degrees in Violence: Robert Mugabe and the Struggle for Power in Zimbabwe, Continuum, London, 2002 | | Blake, Robert, A History of Rhodesia, Eyre Methuen Ltd, London, 1977 | | Bower, Tom, Tiny Rowland: A Rebel Tycoon, Heinemann, London, 1993 | | Bowman, Larry, Politics in Rhodesia: White Power in an African State, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1973 | | Brzezinski, Zbigniev, Power and Principle: Memoirs of the National Security Adviser 1977-1981, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, 1983 | | Butler, R.A., The Art of the Possible: The Memoirs of Lord Butler, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1971 | | Callaghan, James, Time & Change, Collins, London, 1987 | | Carrrington, Lord, Reflect on Things Past: The Memoirs of Lord Carrington, Fontana, London, 1989 | | Cary, Robert, & Mitchell, Diana, African Nationalist Leaders in Rhodesia Who's Who, Books of Rhodesia, Bulawayo, 1977 | | Caute, David, Under the Skin: The Death of White Rhodesia, Allen Lane, London, 1983 | | Chan, Steven, The Commonwealth Observer Group in Zimbabwe, Mambo Press, Gweru, 1985 | | Chanock, Martin, Unconsummated Union: Britain, Rhodesia and South Africa: 1900-1945, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1977 | | Chater, Patricia, Caught in the Crossfire, Zimbabwe Publishing House, Harare, 1985 | | Clingman, Paul, The Moon Can Wait: A Biography of the Hon. A.E. Abrahamson, Penguin, London, 2004 | | Dale, Richard, Botswana’s Search for Autonomy in Southern Africa, Greenwood Press, Westport, 1995 | | Davidow, Jeffrey, A Peace in Southern Africa: The Lancaster House Conference on Rhodesia, 1979, Westview Press, Boulder & London, 1984 | | Dupont, Clifford, The Reluctant President: The Memoirs of The Hon. Clifford Dupont, GCLM.,ID: Men of Out Time, Volume Two, Books of Rhodesia, Bulawayo, 1978 | | Eaton, W.G., A Chronicle of Modern Sunlight: The story of what happened to Rhodesians, InnoVision, Rohnert Park, 1996 | | Foot, Paul, The Politics of Harold Wilson, Penguin, Hammondsworth, 1968 | | Frederikse, Julie, None But Ourselves: Masses vs Media in the Making of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Publishing House, Harare, 1982 | | Gale, W.D., Rhodesia: 1890-1970: Eighty Years Onwards, H.C.P. Anderson, Salisbury, 1970 | | Gann, L.H. & Gelfand, M., Huggins of Rhodesia: The Man and his Country, George Allen & Unwin, London, 1964 | | Gelfand, Michael & Ritchken, Joseph, The Rt. Hon. Godfrey Martin Huggins, First Viscount Malvern of Rhodesia and Bexley: His Life and Work, Central African Journal of Medicine, Salisbury, Undated | | Godwin, Peter, Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa, Picador, London, 1996 | | Godwin, Peter, & Hancock, Ian, ‘Rhodesians Never Die’: The Impact of War and Political Change on White Rhodesia, c. 1970-1980, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1993 | | Goldin, The Honourable Bennie, QC, The Judge, the Prince and the Usurper, Vantage Press, New York, 1990 | | Good, Robert C., U.D.I.: The International Politics of the Rhodesian Rebellion, Faber & Faber, London, 1973 | | Graham, Gordon, ed., All Our Yesterdays: 1890-1970, Illustrated Life Rhodesia, Graham Publishing, Salisbury, 1978 | | Hancock, I.R., White Liberals, Moderates and Radicals in Rhodesia 1953-1980, Crome Helm, Beckenham, 1984 | | Hargrave, J.F., Papers of The Rt. Hon. Sir Roy Welensky KCMG: 1907-1991, In Rhodes House Library, Oxford, A Catalogue, 2 Vols, Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1995 | | Henderson, Nicholas, Mandarin: The Diaries of Nicholas Henderson, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1995 | | Hills, Denis, The Last Days of White Rhodesia, Chatto & Windus, London, 1981 | | Hirsch, Morris I., A Decade of Crisis: Ten Years of Rhodesian Front Rule, Peter Dearlove, Salisbury, 1973 | | Holderness, Hardwicke, Lost Chance: Southern Rhodesia: 1945-58, Zimbabwe Publishing House, Harare, 1985 | | Holleman, J.F., Chief, Council and Commissioner, Oxford University Press, London, 1969 | | Howland, Nina Davis (editor), Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964-1968, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1999 | | Hudson, Miles, Triumph Or Tragedy?: Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, Hamish Hamilton, London, 1983 | | Hunter, Glyn, Farren, Larry & Farran, Althea, Voices of Zimbabwe: the Pain: the Courage: the Hope, Alfa (Pvt) Ltd, Covos Day, Weltevredenpark, 2001 | | Hutchinson, John, 'Failure by Pharisee: The Rhodesian Constitutional Talks of 1974’, Lincoln Review: A Quarterly Journal, The Lincoln I, Washington, Summer 1983 | | Hutson, Major-General H.P.W., Rhodesia Ending an Era, Springwood Books, London, 1978 | | Jardim, Jorge, Sanctions Double-Cross: Oil to Rhodesia, Books of Rhodesia, Bulawayo, 1979 | | Jordan, J.D., Local Government in Zimbabwe, Mambo Press, Gweru, 1984 | | Joyce, Peter, Anatomy of a Rebel: Smith of Rhodesia: a Biography, Graham Publishing, Salisbury, 1974 | | Kapungu, Lawrence, Rhodesia:The Struggle for Freedom, Orbis Books, New York, 1974 | | Kissinger, Henry, Observations: Selected Speeches and Essays 1982-1984, Michael Joseph & Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1985 | | Kuyper, Pieter Jan, The Implementation of International Sanctions: The Netherlands and Rhodesia, T.M.C. Asser Institute, The Hague, 1978 | | Lake, Anthony, The “Tar Baby” Option: American Policy toward Southern Rhodesia, Columbia University Press, New York, 1973 | | Lapsley, Michael, Neutrality or Co-Option: Anglican Church and State from 1964 until the Independence of Zimbabwe, Mambo Press, Gweru, 1986 | | Legum, Colin, Africa Contemporary Record, Annual Survey and Documents, Rex Collings, London, Undated | | Macmillan, Harold, At the End of the Day, Macmillan, London, 1973 | | Marshall, Charles Burton, Crisis over Rhodesia, Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research, Scho, Baltimore, 1967 | | Martin, David & Johnson, Phyllis, The Chitepo Assassination, Zimbabwe Publishing House, Harare, 1985 | | Meadows, Keith, Sometimes When It Rains, Thorntree Press, Bulawayo, 2000 | | Megahey, Alan, Humphrey Gibbs: Beleaguered Governor: Southern Rhodesia, 1929-1969, Macmillan Press Ltd, London, 1998 | | Meredith, Martin, The Past is Another Country: Rhodesia UDI to Zimbabwe, Pan Books Ltd, London, 1980 | | Metrowich, F.R, Rhodesia: Birth of a Nation, Africa Institute, Pretoria, 1969 | | Mitchell, Diana, Who’s Who: Nationalist Leaders in Zimbabwe, Diana Mitchell, Causeway, 1980 | | Moorcraft, Paul L., A Short Thousand Years: The end of the Rhodesian rebellion, Galaxie Press, Salisbury, 1980 | | Mtshali, B. Vundindlela, Rhodesia: Background to Conflict, Hawthorn Books, New York, 1967 | | Mugabe, Robert, 1980 – The Year of the People’s Power, ZANU Central Committee, Maputo, 1979 | | Mugabe, Robert, Ignore the April Bogus Elections, Zimbabwe African National Union – ZANU, Maputo, 1980 | | Munnion, Chris, Banana Sunday: Datelines from Africa, William Waterman Publications, Rivonia, 1993 | | Murphy, Ian & Wannenburgh, Alf, Rhodesian Legacy, C Struik Publishers, Cape Town, 1978 | | Murphy, Philip, Alan Lennox-Boyd: a biography, I.B. Tauris, London, 1999 | | Murray, D.G., The Governmental System in Southern Rhodesia, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1970 | | Mutasa, Didymus, Black Behind Bars, Longman Zimbabwe, Harare, 1983 | | Muzorewa, Bishop Abel, ‘Outlook for Rhodesia/Zimbabwe’, in International Affairs Bulletin, Volume 2, No. 2, Johannesburg, 1978 | | Muzorewa, Bishop Abel, Rise up and Walk, Sphere Books, London, 1978 | | Nehwati, Franci, 'The Social and Communal Background to "Zhii" The African Riots in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia in 1960,, African Affairs, No 69, London, July 1970 | | Niesewand, Peter, In Camera - Secret Justice in Rhodesia, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1973 | | Nkala, Jericho C., The United Nations, International Law, and the Rhodesian Crisis, Clarendon Press, Marshalltown, 1982 | | Nkomo, Joshua, Nkomo: The Story of My Life, Methuen, London, 1984 | | Nyagumbo, Maurice, Some of us must remain to be with the People even if it means to be in jail with them, The Graham Publishing Company, Salisbury, 1980 | | Owen, David, Human Rights, Jonathan Cape, London, 1978 | | Parker, John, Rhodesia: Little White Island, Pitman Publishing, London, 1972 | | Paver, B.G., His Own Oppressor, Peter Davies, London, 1958 | | Peck, A.J.A., Rhodesia Accuses, Three Sisters Books, Salisbury, 1966 | | Phimister, Ian, An Economic and Social History of Zimbabwe: 1890-1948: Capital Accumulation Class Struggle, Longman, London, 1988 | | Pimlot, Ben, Harold Wilson, HarperCollins, London, 1992 | | Randolph, R.H., Dawn in Zimbabwe, Mambo Press, Gweru, 1985 | | Reed, Douglas, The Battle for Rhodesia, Haum, Cape Town, 1966 | | Renwick, Robin, Unconventional Diplomacy in Southern Africa, Macmillan Press Ltd, London, 1997 | | Rodney, Walter, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Zimbabwe Publishing House, Harare, 1983 | | Roth, Andrew, Heath and the Heathmen, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1972 | | Samkange, Stanlake, On Trial for My Country, Heinemann, London, 1966 | | Scott, David, Ambassador in Black and White: Thirty Years of Changing Africa, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1981 | | Shamuyarira, Nathan M., Crisis in Rhodesia, Transatalantic Arts, New York, 1965 | | Sithole, Masipula, Zimbabwe: Struggles within the Struggle, Rujeko, Salisbury, 1979 | | Sithole, Ndabaningi, African Nationalism, Oxford University Press, Cape Town, 1962 | | Sithole, Ndabaningi, In Defence of the Rhodesian Constitutional Agreement: A Power Promise, Graham Publishing, Salisbury, 1978 | | Sithole, Ndabaningi, ‘The Rhodesian Internal Settlement and Prospects for Peace’, in International Affairs Bulletin, Volume 2, No. 2, Johannesburg, 1978 | | Skeen, Brigadier Andrew, Prelude to Independence: Skeen's 115 Days, Nasionale Boekhandle, Pretoria, 1966 | | Skelton, Kenneth, Bishop in Smith’s Rhodesia, Mambo Press, Gweru, 1985 | | Smith, David & Simpson, Colin, with Ian Davies, Mugabe, Pioneer Head, Salisbury, 1981 | | Smith, Donald, Rhodesia: the Problem, Robert Maxwell, London, 1969 | | Smith, Ian, The Great Betrayal: The Memoirs of Ian Douglas Smith, Blake Publishing, London, 1997 | | Smith, Ivan, Come Break a Spear, Black Eagle Press, Bulawayo, 1980 | | Sobel, Lester A. (ed.), Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, Facts on File, New York, 1978 | | Spurling, B.G, Reluctant Rebel, Voortrekkerpers, Pretoria, 1966 | | Spurling, Colonel Basil, 'The truth concerning certain comments in the book "Serving Secretly" by K. Flower', memorandum in the author's possession, Durban, 1988 | | Stedman, Stephen John, 'The Lancaster House Constitutional Conference on Rhodesia', Case 341: Pew Case Studies in International Affairs, the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 1993 | | Stumbles, The Hon. A. R. W., GLM, ICD, Some Recollections Of A Rhodesian Speaker, Books Of Rhodesia, Bulawayo, 1980 | | Sutton-Pryce, Ted, Zimbabwe: A model for Namibia: A comparison of events in Zimbabwe-Rhodesia 1979-1980 with the situation in SWA in 1989, Academica, Pretoria, 1989 | | Thatcher, Margaret, The Downing Street Years, HarperCollins, London, 1993 | | Thompson, Carole B., Challenge to Imperialism: The Frontline States in the Liberation of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Publishing House, Harare, 1985 | | Todd, Judith, The Right to Say N, Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1972 | | Vambe, Lawrence, From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, William Heinemann, London, 1976 | | Verrier, Anthony, The Road to Zimbabwe: 1890-1980, Jonathan Cape, London, 1986 | | White, Matthew C., Smith of Rhodesia: A Pictorial Biography, Matthew C. White, Cape Town, 1978 | | Williams, Marcia, Inside Number 10, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1972 | | Williams, Neville, Chronology of the Modern World: 1763-1965, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1975 | | Wilson, F.M.G. & Passmore, G.C. assisted by Margaret T. Mitchell, Holders of Administrative and Ministerial Office: 1894-1964: and Members of the Legislative Council: 1899-1923: and the Legislative Assembly: 1924-1964, University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Sour, Salisbury, 1966 | | Wilson, Harold, The Governance of Britain, Weidenfeld & Nicholson and Michael Joseph, London, 1976 | | Wilson, Harold, The Labour Government 1964-1970, Weidenfeld & Nicholson and Michael Joseph, London, 1971 | | Winch, Jonty, Cricket's Rich Heritage: A History of Rhodesian and Zimbabwean Cricket: 1890-1982, Books of Zimbabwe, Bulawayo, 1983 | | Windrich, Elaine, The Mass Media in the Struggle for Zimbabwe, Mambo Press, Gwelo, 1981 | | Wiseman, Henry, & Taylor, Alastair M., From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe: The Politics of Transition, Pergammon Press, New York, 1981 | | Wood, Richard [J. R. T.], 'Rhodesian Issue in Historical Perspective', in Al J. Venter (ed), Challenge, Southern Africa W, Ashanti Publishing Ltd., Gibraltar, 1989 | | Wood, Richard [J.R.T.], ‘Siting the Capital of the Central African Federation’, Benyon, J.A., Cook, C.W., Davenport, T.R.H. & Hunt, K.S., eds, Studies in Local History: Essays in Honour of Professor Winifred Maxwell, pp. 71-, Oxford University Press, Cape Town, 1976 | | Wright, Peter, with Paul Greengrass, Spy Catcher, Victoria, William Heinemann Australia, 1987 | | Young, Kenneth, Rhodesia and Independence: A Study in British Colonial Policy, Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1967 |
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