The Myth of Smith Rhodesia Revealed eBook Douglas Schorr Milton Schorr
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Offered an opportunity to join a Rhodesian death squad dealing in germ warfare and other nasties, and faced with the torture and murder of his close staff, Douglas Schorr resigned from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a refugee of a brutal war at the age of 28. Today, 30 years later, he has sat down to write out the tale of his involvement in that war, told from the experience of another lifetime’s worth of living and learning. ‘The Myth of Smith’ pierces the dark heart of Zimbabwe’s Bush War and offers an alternate telling of that tale. It is an autobiography with a mission to explode the fable of the ‘Breadbasket of Africa’ just as surely as a landmine beneath a Land Rover, and to send shrapnel from that explosion hurtling into the past, present and future.
“I am a white man bred under the African sun. I am a white man who fought for Smith. I fought for a dream, my dream couched in his dream of a thousand years of white rule, a dream many, many of us Rhodesians shared. Today I am sitting down to write a book about that dream, principally about how that dream never was.”
The Myth of Smith Rhodesia Revealed eBook Douglas Schorr Milton Schorr
This could have been a really good book if it had stopped when Schorr left Internal Affairs. Unfortunately the second part is a downward spiral of self examination and conspiracy confusion. It reaches the point where he states that the Shona would never reach the level of mutilating and torturing their own except in isolated incidences. Many of us who were there can attest to the opposite and recent years in Zimbabwe have proven how wrong that is. Schorr should have also know that the majority of the perpetrators of the Elim Mission massacre where killed or captured shortly afterwards. In 1984 I met one of the surviving ring leaders in a Mocambique refugee camp. A greatly changed man he had a very different take on ZANLA's philosophy about missionaries.Would I recommend this book? Yes I would as long as you read others such as Fynes -Clinton and remember this book is about one mans perception of the whole upheaval. Without a doubt it was a horrible time, without a doubt the war brought out the worst in all of us, (even the "good" wars had major atrocities by all sides) but to call this a definitive work is an over exaggeration.
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The Myth of Smith Rhodesia Revealed eBook Douglas Schorr Milton Schorr Reviews
Wonderful book- combines the excitement typical in a Rhodesian's memoirs with clear and concise commentary- I would recommend this to anybody who has an idealized view of Rhodesia under Ian Smith
The worst five dollars I ever spent ,not worth the read.
I know Douglas Schorr personally and much of his experience is a shared experience, except we were in different establishments, but we shared common territory for a while in the South East of then Rhodesia - Zimbabwe/Rhodesia and now Zimbabwe. One aspect of the book that was frustrating for those who were there was the anonymity given to all the characters in the book. The odd first name pops up, but one gets a sense that perhaps these characters were mythical rather than real. His experiences were diverse, but one wonders if the nature of the job he did created a load of misconceptions about what was really going on in the war. The intelligence services most certainly did, and the seeming 'ridicule'of the Special Branch and its covert modus operandi, its comings and goings, apparently intrigued the author, who regarded them as political police. Nothing could be further from the truth. One thing is for certain... the government of the day fired up its propaganda machine to soften the horror of the war zones. The politics of the days was as filthy as that of modern day Zimbabwe... and it is perhaps true that Smith was surrounded by myths and was not quite the hero good old Rhodies make him out to be. That is subjective opinion... something commonly encountered in this book. In the latter part of the book, Doug steps into the speculative world of conspiracy and makes some suggestions which, as a reader who was there and in the know, I just know were not true or real. So The Myth of Smith s very much the myth of Doug Schorr... Doug could have done better... He makes a load of very valid observations of that terrible time in some of our lives.
I have never read such rubbish. The author was clearly a very confused person and not in the least qualified to write on his chosen subject. Who quite he thought he was as a jumped DC who he was so far removed from the realities of the period in which he based his book on, i cant understand. Clearly a life loser after a quick buck. Mr Schorr your confused facts and your bias were very apparent.
A potentially good story but very poorly written. Not only because syntax, grammar and punctuation take a back seat, but because the book is sadly over-loaded with misinformation, supposition and "facts" gleaned from the Internet. What is particularly annoying is where the author uses statistics he uncovered on the Internet which in fact pertained to Mugabe in 2002 and attributes these to Smith to indicate how poorly the latter ran the country. Sadly, some people who either weren't in Rhodesia in the 1970's or weren't involved in the war might read this and think it's all true (some of the reviews confirm this). Those of us who were there and were directly involved in the war will know the truth. We know for example, that much of what Schorr has to say is true and lot of it is not. What is difficult to determine is whether the author is intentionally trying to deceive the reader or whether this is just the product of some very sloppy research. One thing for sure though, blaming Ian Smith for his current psychological problems is utter nonsense - Schorr, just like the rest of us, had the opportunity to get out at any time and he chose not to. Readers wanting a better understanding of events during Smith's time might like to read Peter Godwin, Alexandra Fuller or Chris Cocks, all of whom are excellent writers, are decidedly not pro-Smith and who don't have to rely on second-hand tales from unreliable sources.
This could have been a really good book if it had stopped when Schorr left Internal Affairs. Unfortunately the second part is a downward spiral of self examination and conspiracy confusion. It reaches the point where he states that the Shona would never reach the level of mutilating and torturing their own except in isolated incidences. Many of us who were there can attest to the opposite and recent years in Zimbabwe have proven how wrong that is. Schorr should have also know that the majority of the perpetrators of the Elim Mission massacre where killed or captured shortly afterwards. In 1984 I met one of the surviving ring leaders in a Mocambique refugee camp. A greatly changed man he had a very different take on ZANLA's philosophy about missionaries.
Would I recommend this book? Yes I would as long as you read others such as Fynes -Clinton and remember this book is about one mans perception of the whole upheaval. Without a doubt it was a horrible time, without a doubt the war brought out the worst in all of us, (even the "good" wars had major atrocities by all sides) but to call this a definitive work is an over exaggeration.
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