An evolutionary saga, The Last Rhodesians is the definitive insight on this culture’s origins, identity and imprint in Africa. Then 16 years of war led to the demise, sunset and ‘fall’ of Rhodesia. Negotiations ended the state in 1979: but Rhodesians ‘never died’. The war was fought in numerous bush battles, across adjacent states, in espionage, sanctions-busting, for rural hearts and minds, and in covert diplomacy.

Fault lines in history, with Cold War powers in Moscow and Peking – with East Bloc belligerents, ethno-nationalist armies and Western interests – coalesced in revolutionary war.