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Peter Godwin's Mukiwa vividly captures the madness of war through his frontline experiences in Rhodesia's brutal insurgency, from ambushes and clashes with insurgents to the stark futility of a conflict fueled by local betrayals and unyielding violence. Godwin brushes "in touch with death" as a police reservist and chaos of the disintegration.

Brewing childhood memories of the writer in Rhodesia.

The author is living the story as it unfolds. This is what makes it captivating.

Story of child growing in the last years of Rhodesia