Bush of Ghosts: Life and War in Namibia 1986-90 By John Liebenberg & Patricia Hayes
Bush of Ghosts: Life and War in Namibia 1986-90 By John Liebenberg & Patricia Hayes
Softcover
ISBN 9781415201008
Publisher: Umuzi 2010
Used - Very Good. Ex Library book with limited but expected stamps and pastings.The cover may have some limited signs of edge and spine wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book is still in a very good condition and for an ex library book has clearly been well maintained thus far.
A powerful photographic essay on the so-called 'Border War' from its height in 1986 to its end and the return of SWAPO combatants to their country.
Unique images by veteran photographer Liebenberg are included, taken in stealth where cameras were outlawed, and because he managed to get to both sides of the conflict. The book traces the marks left by war on individuals on both sides, as much as on the region that was the theatre of operations on its landscape, its cultural and its political life. It follows the conflict through to the aftermath: the arrival of the United Nations transitional authority and the advent of democracy in Namibia, showing many of the fault lines exposed in the process. The photographs, mostly in black and white, in large format, speak eloquently for themselves, with captions reduced to the minimum. No blame is apportioned in this, southwestern Africa's Vietnam.
With historically contextualizing introduction by historian Hayes.
