A Country Dies

A young man returns to Rhodesia to experience the horrors and tribulations of a country at war with itself. Communist-trained and inspired terrorists, enabled by global politics of expediency, are relentless in their determination to overthrow colonial rule. The first victim is innocence; the last is the dream of an entire nation whose people simply wished to build their heritage and to live in peace.

As a Ministry of Information Press Officer in Ian Smith's government Bill DeVries is a non-combatant in Rhodesia's Bush War. But like all Rhodesians he endures a deep sense of loss, betrayal and anger as the security of his cherished homeland is violated and steadily eroded.

In time he finds love and summons up the courage to challenge new horizons, to start a new life in a country far removed from the land of his youth. But first he must come to terms with the inevitability of change and personal sacrifice while knowing that those left behind, or who choose to stay, will become hostages to the unfolding human tragedy since 1980 that so completely describes Zimbabwe today.