BOOK REVIEWS .121Rolin's Rhodesia By H. Rolin translated by D. Kirkwood. Bulawayo, Booksof Rhodesia, 1978, 304pp., illustrated, ZR$17,00.A Right to Be Proud By A. P. Di Perna. Bulawayo, Books of Rhodesia, 1979,245pp., illustrated, ZR$13,90.These two works are part of a well known series of reprints but they bothrepresent new departures for the publisher. The former of the two books isthe first translation in the series and the latter is a reprint only in the sensethat it is an updated and extended version of a Ph.D. thesis only a few yearsold.Specialists in the early history of European rule in Southern Rhodesiahave long known, and profited from, Rolin's Les Lois et Vadministration dela Rhodesie (Brussels, E. Bruylant, 1913); this translation into English willnow make this work available to a wider reading public. The book is largelya factual description of the way in which the British South Africa Companygoverned its territory south of the Zambezi, but it also has useful materialon the organization of land settlement and mining. It is in effect, the nearestwe have to a constitutional history of the B.S.A. Company, and it is a pity thatan analytical introduction was not provided.Di Perna's book is essentially an explanation of the reasons why SouthernRhodesia opted to end Company rule and become self-governing rather thana part of the Union of South Africa. The short answer of the author is thata Rhodesian nationalism had developedŠand that it is only ignorance of thatfactor that has made Britain and the world underestimate Rhodesian deter-mination since 1962. While there is some truth in this line of argument, itgreatly oversimplifies the complexities of the 1922 Referendum and noaccount has been taken of considerable research, notably by Mrs Elaine Lee,a doctoral student of this University, much of which has been published.Whatever criticisms may be made of these two books, however, it isimportant to welcome these new ventures by the publisher in making suchworks accessible to the reading public and students of Zimbabwe Rhodesia.R.S.R.The Yellow Mountain By L. Burton. Salisbury, Regal Publishers, 1976,293pp., ZR$7,50.Spotted Soldiers By C. E. Dibb. Salisbury, Leo Publications, 1978, 160pp.,ZR$4,80.Operation Zambezi : The Raid into Zambia By P. Armstrong. Salisbury,Welston Press, 1979, 256 pp., ZR$2,75.Ten years ago after ZAPU guerillas had clashed with security forces in theWankie district several authors used the incident as a basis for novels aboutan imaginary war in Rhodesia. Wilbur Smith's The Sunbird, David Chap-man's The Infiltrators and Lawrence van der Post's two novels A Far-offPlace and A Story like the Wind all give a fictional rendering to that earlyincursion and all managed to invest it with a curious quality of fantasy.That is nothing new. Long after the armed resistence to the occupation of