Echoes of an african war
Echoes of an African War
Chas Lotter
First published in 1999 - No longer in print – limited stocks
Hardback with slipcase. 197 pages 250 x 300mm 10 x 12 > 300 colour & b/w photos, drawings, artworks
£29.95 + P&P
In Echoes of an African War, Chas Lotter, the soldier poet of Southern Africa, matches his haunting poetry with authentic photos, paintings and sketches to tell the story of the Rhodesian bush war – the formula is both effective and stunning. You have to see it.
Echoes of an African War follows the story of the teenaged army recruit who exchange his home and his family for the world of barrack life. It sketches the years , until 1973, when a low intensity war allowed a young man to explore the African bush. The story then bursts into the late 1970’s when the conflict escalated into a vicious civil war. It covers the war’s end, in 1980, and the subsequent readjustment to civilian life before finishing in 1999, when as a mature man, he looks back and remembers events that are now history. Most important of all, this work imparts to his children what it was like to be a soldier in Rhodesia’s war........
Chas Lotter has perfected the magic art of combining pathos and eeriness. His observations are canny and surgically precise as he gradually unfolds his story.
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