Buy this book on-line MARTIN, DAVID: : General AminLONDON.FABER & FABER,1974. ISBN 0571105858.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/FINE.Neat ink owner name+date to top corner of ffe, but no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,clean, crisp,glossy laminated,b/w subject portrait photographs to both wraps; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges or corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edge slightly aged,fore-edge less so and generally clean; contents bright,tight and clean.Bright,clean, unblemished,burgundy cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and minimally foxed/ spotted endpapers - the only foxing throughout the book.Laid in,loose,dated [18/Aug/2003 - Idi Amin Dada born around 1925,died Aug 16th,2003.] Guardian newspaper subject obituary full-page cutting by Patrick Keatley.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,10-254pp [paginated] includes half-title+title pages, illustrations+maps lists,author's preface, 13 chapters,15pp contemporary b/w photographs,2 b/w maps,and an index.
The news that Dr. Milton Obote,President
of Uganda,had been deposed by General Idi
Amin on 25th January 1971 was greeted optimistically by many countries in the West.Since then Amin's fame has spread like wildfire as the incredulous world receives his increasingly outrageous pronouncements.But the smiling,childish image which the media have indulgently created for the figure who rose from army cook to President of a modern nation state
conceals the qualities of one of the most feared dictators of this century.Even before independence,Idi Amin had acquired a record of brutality,but since coming to
power - according to the facts revealed by his own ministers in a secret memorandum - the death toll in Uganda has mounted appallingly.
David Martin,a journalist based in neighbouring Tanzania,is well aware of the
General's ruthlessness,having had a price put on his head and the threat levelled at him that he will be tracked down in any corner of the world for reporting the murders and massacres inside Uganda.This book is a study of the historical background to the 1971 coup,the reasons why Amin had to seize power in order to survive,and the devastating results of the take-over for Uganda.
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