Atkins, Graham

Graham Atkins was just 9 years old when, in 1965, the British colony of Southern Rhodesia unilaterally declared independence from Britain. UDI, as it was known, triggered an increasingly vicious guerrilla war between Ian Smith's recalcitrant white settler community and the brutal insurgent forces of Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo. In 1979, just as the civil war reached its zenith, Graham found himself conscripted into the Rhodesian army as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1RR Batallion. He saw first-hand the tragedy of a nation at war with itself and the horrors it wrought on combatants and civilians alike...