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Inglorious Empire – What the British did to India by Shashi Tharoor
Reviewed by Trevor Grundy Soon it will be the 70th anniversary of India’s Independence from Britain. Expect a tsunami of memoirs, newspaper articles, television and radio plays and… Read more >
Chenjerai Hove – A voice for the voiceless in Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe
By TREVOR GRUNDY He was a man of principle during the course of a lonely 14-years exile in America, France and Norway. He was a voice for the voiceless… Read more >
Peter Mackay: An officer and a gentleman who Rhodesian whites imprisoned and branded a “kaffir-loving KGB agent.”
By Trevor Grundy When Peter Mackay died in 2013 at his well-kempt, humble cottage home in Marondera (the former Marandellas) he was 86. He was, wrote the historian Terence… Read more >
Shafted: The Media, the Miners’ Strike and the Aftermath, edited by Granville Williams
Reviewed by Trevor Grundy On June 18, the BBC’s Radio Four flagship programme ‘Today’ reminded us that it was the 204th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. Sadly, for those… Read more >