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Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
Little Brown and Company
April 2011
On Sale: March 23, 2011
384 pages
ISBN: 031605173X
EAN: 9780316051736
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Journalist Peter Godwin has covered wars. As a soldier, he's
fought them. But nothing prepared him for the surreal mix of
desperation and hope he encountered when he returned to
Zimbabwe, his broken homeland. Godwin arrived as Robert Mugabe, the country's dictator for
30 years, has finally lost an election. Mugabe's tenure has
left Zimbabwe with the world's highest rate of inflation and
the shortest life span. Instead of conceding power, Mugabe
launched a brutal campaign of terror against his own
citizens. With foreign correspondents banned, and he himself
there illegally, Godwin was one of the few observers to bear
witness to this period the locals call The Fear. He saw
torture bases and the burning villages but was most awed as
an observer of not only simple acts of kindness but also
churchmen and diplomats putting their own lives on the line
to try to stop the carnage. THE FEAR is a book about the astonishing courage and
resilience of a people, armed with nothing but a desire to
be free, who challenged a violent dictatorship. It is also
the deeply personal and ultimately uplifting story of a man
trying to make sense of the country he can't recognize as home.
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