Rhodesia - little white island

This is not a scholarly historical analysis of the white man's role in Rhodesia; still less does it purport to be a dispassionate account of the events which have led up to the current crisis. John Parker has told his story as it happened to him: the story of a white "settler" and his family, who arrived in Rhodesia in 1955 as political babes-in-arms and were ejected eleven years later sadder, perhaps wiser, and, certainly, committed to the cause of African majority rule. Little White Island is more than one man's story, however. In human terms, it describes the frightening background to Britain's attempts to comes to terms with the Ian Douglas Smith regime, the lengths to which the ordinary, "decent" white man is prepared to go to maintain his position in a society which refuses to acknowledge basic human rights and freedoms to nineteen out of twenty of the population.