What was it like in white supremacist Rhodesia before the devastating race war out of which the troubled country of Zimbabwe with all its bitterness was born? "Iron Man" Ian Smith and his White Front had declared Independence from the British Crown in 1965 and taken over Rhodesia with its splendid highlands, "God and white man's country." In the 1970s the Matabele and Mashona freedom fighters were once again in the hills, over the borders in Zambia and Mozambique, and war was in its beginnings. On an impulse to be part of it, an idealistic young American quits his teaching job in Kenya and...