Download or read book Peasant Consciousness and Guerilla War in Zimbabwe written by Terence O. Ranger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zimbabwe s Guerrilla War written by Norma J. Kriger and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The ZAPU and ZANU Guerrilla Warfare and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe written by Ngwabi Bhebe and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was a seminal contribution to the history of the Zimbabwean liberation war, which ended with independence in 1980. The book takes a considered view of both sides in the guerrilla war, but is particularly concerned with the Zapu side. At the time of writing this was more or less uncharted territory, to some extent the result of the political outcome of the war, which in the name of national unity, silenced the Zapu story. In particular, it uses material from interviews with ex-Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) combatants, previously unobtainable. A particular angle of enquiry is the role of the evangelical Lutheran church in the war. The book is organised into sections: presenting an overview of the war and the roles of Zanu and Zapu 1964-1979; on ideologies and strategies of the liberation movements and the colonial state; on the place of the Lutheran church in Zimbabwe, the war in the west; the war in the east; church, mission and liberation; and the era of reconstruction.
Download or read book Zimbabwe s Guerrilla War written by Norma J. Kriger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of Zimbabwe's rural-based war of independence, Norma Kriger is interested in the extent to which ZANU guerrillas were able to mobilize peasant support.
Download or read book Black Fire written by Michael Raeburn and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Peasant Consciousness and Guerrilla War in Zimbabwe written by Terence O. Ranger and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Peasant Consciousness and Guerrilla War in Zimbabwe written by Terence Osborn Ranger and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Peasant Consciousness and Guerilla War in Zimbabwe written by Terence Osborn Ranger and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book International Conference on the Zimbabwe Liberation War written by Ngwabi Bhebe and published by James Currey Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zimbabwe's Liberation War started with incursions by tiny guerrilla groups and then built up until the settler regime finally had to negotiate a settlement in 1980. This book looks at the realities of the war and what happened afterwards, rather than at the comfortable myths. Both heroic and terrible deeds are recorded. There are both idealistic hopes and cynical compromises. It is centred on ordinary soldiers and people who sacrificed their lives to achieve advances and victories, and suffered the consequences of retreats and defeats. It is history told and experienced by the soldiers themselves, not the 'official' and 'authorized' account by leaders. This book compares strategies used by all the main players - ZIPRA, ZIPA, ZANLA and the Rhodesian Forces. It discusses the Nhari rebellion and the March 11 Movement, the Fifth Brigade and the 'dissidents'. The volume further examines the integration of the armies after 1980, analyses the politics of creating war heroes and discusses life after the war for ex-combatants.
Download or read book Black Fire written by Michael Raeburn and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Front Line Runs Through Every Woman written by Eleanor O'Gorman and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theorizes the experiences of women in wartime, and specifically of African women during Zimbabwe's anti-colonial struggle. A Zimbabwe-specific study, focusing on the lives of women in a small locale (Chiweshe) during the anti-colonial insurgency, this book is also a challenge to established and still current modes of thought and research orientationswhich over-simplify the complex realities women face in the full range of violent conflicts, both past and present. By contextualizing the voices of women of Chiweshe, not only is an important and under-developed aspect of Zimbabwean and African history revealed, but a new approach to comprehending the highly-tensioned lives of women in war is presented, which is characterized here as Gendered Localised Resistance. This is examined through the prism of life in the Protected Villages in Chiweshe experienced in everyday social relations, revolutionary roles, and food security. It traces how women forged strategies of survival and resistance in the middle of guerrilla warfare pitted between the forces of the state and the revolutionary resistance movements. The book can be read as a unique and richly detailed account of the lives of women during the Zimbabwe civil war and liberation struggle; as a wider argument about how researchers can approach and incorporate lived experience into accounts of larger dynamics (war/revolution); and as a substantial and important contribution to feminist historiography and writings on women and war. Eleanor O' Gorman is Senior Associate at the Gender Studies Centre and a Research Associate at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge; an independent consultant who has advised the UN, the UK Government (DFID and FCO), the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, the European Commission, and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Zimbabwe: Weaver Press
Download or read book Mugabe s War Machine written by Paul Moorcraft and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2012-02-17 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mugabe's War Machine is the first full account of one man's military ambitions. It contains shocking stories of massacre and murder at home and powerful accounts of neighbouring wars and international intelligence intrigues. This revealing book tracks the rise of Robert Mugabe and decodes his psychology in the context of Zimbabwe's military history. His leadership of a guerrilla army against white rule explains how Mugabe continued to rule Zimbabwe as though he were still running an insurgency. Mugabe used military power - the armed forces, militias, police and the dreaded Central Intelligence Organization - to enforce his will against a series of perceived enemies. Along with inflicting massacres in Matabeleland in the early 1980s, Mugabe's forces also fought a covert war against apartheid South Africa. A large army was sent to intervene in the civil war in Mozambique. After 1998 Zimbabwean troops engaged in the massive conflict in the Congo, dubbed Africa's First World War. Domestically, Mugabe crushed all his alleged opponents from the Ndebele to white farmers, and then the media, judiciary, civic groups, churches, unions and homosexuals. The book recounts South African attempts to keep the current government of national unity alive, despite the growing oppression. It also considers how Zimbabwe can be saved from its own self-destruction. Professor Paul Moorcraft is a prolific author and war correspondent who has served in the Rhodesian/Zimbabwean Police and worked closely with the British Armed Forces. His book, The Rhodesian War (Pen and Sword 2008) has been a huge success.
Download or read book War Veterans in Zimbabwe s Revolution written by Zvakanyorwa Wilbert Sadomba and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insider's view of the land issue and farm invasions in Zimbabwe, this book gives a different perspective than is normally heard, revealing much about the tensions within Zimbabwean society and between the war veterans and the ruling party.
Download or read book Guns Rain written by David Lan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost every anti-colonial struggle this century has been led by an army of guerrillas. No such struggle has succeeded without a very high degree of cooperation between guerrillas and the local peasantry. But what does "cooperation" between peasants and guerrillas really consist of? What effect does it have on the way they view the world for which they fight? In the struggle for Zimbabwe (1966-80), hundreds of thousands of peasants provided the guerrillas with practical help and support. But they went a good deal further. Throughout the country scores of spirit mediums, the religious leaders of Shona, gave active support to resistance. With their participation, the scale of the war expanded into an astonishing act of collaboration between ancestors and their descendants, the past and the present, the living and the dead. This book is a detailed study of one key "operational zone" in the Zambezi valley. It shows that to understand the meaning the war and independence have for the people of Zimbabwe themselves, we must take into account not only the nationalist guerrillas and politicians, the bearers of guns, but also the mediums of the spirits of the Shona royal ancestors, the bringers of rain. [Publisher]
Download or read book Soldiers in Zimbabwe s Liberation War written by Ngwabi Bhebe and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prelude Operation Zero Hour written by David John Price and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-26 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operation Zero Hour is centred around a group of highly-trained freedom fighters from the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army, (Z.I.P.R.A.) the military wing of the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (Z.A.P.U) and members of the Rhodesian Special forces; The Rhodesian Light Infantry The Insurgent's mission is to infiltrate Rhodesia, from their base in Zambia and make their way towards South West Matabeleland. The freedom fighters base themselves in the Matopos National Park and, from this sacred Ndebele stronghold, launch attacks against the farming community in Marula with the aim of driving out the remainder of the die-hard European farmers, who have so far resisted any attempt to dislodge them. The success of their mission would determine the timing of the long-awaited plan of ZAPU to instigate the first phase of 'Operation Zero Hour' which will switch guerrilla insurgency to conventional warfare. The objective of 'Operation Zero Hour' is to confront the Rhodesian Armed Forces head on for the final battle to liberate Zimbabwe. Once achieved, the second phase of 'Operation Zero Hour' will be to eliminate the pro-Chinese ZANLA fighters, who currently control the north-east of Zimbabwe, under the command of Robert Mugabe, and secure total dominance over the entire country. The Guerrillas are led by a high ranking ZIPRA Commander Tshinga Mufumo who is driven by a deep sense of purpose and determined to fight for the liberation of Zimbabwe. Mufumo has recently returned to Zambia, following two years of intensive training in the Soviet Union, and sees the struggle for self-determination as the responsibility of all Zimbabweans. His success in Marula is essential in ensuring the necessary bridgeheads into Matabeleland are able to be established, once the farmers have been driven out of the area. The combatants under his command follow him without question and have no fear of the elite soldiers of the Rhodesian Light Infantry. They know they will eventually face the enemy in a battle to the death. Sent to reinforce defences in the Murula farming area are four soldiers of the Rhodesian Light Infantry. They are unaware of the concerns of senior army commanders and see their task as just another routine operation. However, they are soon to learn that the terrorists they have been sent to confront are, in reality, a group of hard-core guerrilla's ready to stand and fight on any terms. Corporal Mike Cameron, an ex-British soldier, leads the security force operation. Cameron has seen action in several theatres of war and displays all the qualities of a professional soldier; however, a run-in with the British Police regarding suspected arms dealings with the provisional IRA forced him to flee his native land and seek adventure in Rhodesia. On the other hand, Van Arden, an Afrikaner, bursts into the story as a soldier who has a passion for killing the enemy and takes great pride in keeping the mentality of a diehard Afrikaner alive. Shaun McIntosh, Scotty to his friends, was a former British and Commonwealth Boxing Champion. His final defeat was not in the ring but against his own demons. Allan DeWitt, Budgie to his friends, is on his first operational mission after failing to pass out of recruit training three times. He is soon to learn that war is a dirty business and bullets do not discriminate the colour of a man's skin. Soon the experience of battle turns him from a raw recruit into an RLI Commando. They are later joined by an African Soldier Trooper Horatio Solomon Phiri who transferred to the famed Selous Scouts after distinguishing himself with the Rhodesian African Rifles and brings much experience to the group. Each combatant has a story to tell of their fears, their motives, and what drives them to fight for their beliefs. Together the characters bring a rich combination of experience, loyalty, idealism and death.
Download or read book The Struggle for Zimbabwe written by Lewis H. Gann and published by Praeger Publishers. This book was released on 1981 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
