The Bush Rebels – Barbara Cornwall

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good, Clean and tight copy with neat inscription of previous owner or signature of author NOT sure. Dust wrapper Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Foxing to side edges but pages otherwise clean. Wrapper priced clipped, a little shelf wear in a protective cellophane cover for extra protection, maps on end-papers of B&W Photographs; 252 pages.

For three monhts Barbra Cornwell shared their existance, first with the FRELIMO forces in Mozambique and then with the PIAGC in Portuguese Guinea. This is her account, told with humour, intelligence, deep sympathy and a sharp eye for the significant detail. In Mozambique she discovered a new breed of revolutionary, for whom self-sacrifice has become a life style.She discovered men and women who endure extreme physical hardship as a matter of course, who live permanently in shadows of death, and who are pitted against enemy of varsity superior technology, and yet they were to show a starling gentleness toward her when she merciless conditions of her life. Sleeping in rat infested huts, marching up to forty miles a day ……………..