Publisher Zimbabwe Publishing House (Pvt) Ltd, P.O. Box BW-350 Harare, Zimbabwe
© Hardwicke Holderness 1985 First published by ZPH Publisher 1985 Front cover photograph by Maggie Steber ISBN 0 949932 88 4 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers. Typeset by Bookset (Pvt) Ltd, Bulawayo Printed in Zimbabwe by Zimpak Category Autobiography Language English
Story Lost Chance, Southern Rhodesia 1945-58, is a compelling, personal account of a crucial stage in Southern Rhodesia’s unique history as a British colony. Returning from service in World Wai: 2, the author and other whites saw an opportunity to establish common ground between blacks and whites in politics. The story of their attempts to forge a new path, from the end of the war until the fall of Garfield Todd in 1958, makes fascinating reading. Lucidly and sensitively written, this book gives the inside story of the lives of those whites to whom Ian Smith’s politics were an anathema. What led up to the events of 1958? What common ground did exist between blacks and whites? Could the accession of the Rhodesian Front have been averted? These questions are informally but authoritatively answered in Lost Chance.
‘A remarkable feat of resurrection. I can think of nothing like it as evidence that there were whites worthy to be listed among the ancestral spirits of the new nation.’ Professor Terence Ranger (Historian).
