Bitter Harvest

A second edition (first South African) of the book which was first published in England, in 1997. An Octavo (154 x 234mm) paperback book in a thin pictorial cover which shows signs of wear, with several pages as well as the front cover being slightly crumpled. Fourteen preliminary pages and 434 pages of text, including the index; map frontispiece and 10 pages of black & white photographs and cartoons; a written remark on the title page. Overall in good to fair condition.

The autobiography of Ian Smith, the last Prime Minister of Rhodesia, remembers in this book events from his early life and recounts how he tried to keep Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) on the path to democracy when the West was trying to decolonise Africa. He tells the story behind the signing of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence and of the evolution of the Mugabe dictatorship of today.